For anyone curious/worried, the free version is not a ‘lite’ or ‘trial’ version, the only difference between the 2 is the ‘About’ screen. AndChat will always be free but a contribution is always appreciated.

How Apple execs see the iPad:

They didn’t mention it, but you can do nick completion via the Search button. I’ll mention this in the app description with the next update

Note to users of AndroidIRC, you can install the new app and transfer your settings/server profiles over if you have root.. If you do, then see root.txt.

Edit: By request, it has been made available to download from the site. Visit the download page to get it.

So I wrote a widget so you can easily enable text to speech notifications telling you the name of the person calling or texting you.

Inspired by this project on xda devs, I decided to write an app from scratch since that app never worked for me and you couldn’t easily enable or disable it.

The app is open source and is available at Google Code Hosting.

Screenshots:

The new client has support for multiple servers, as well as things missing in the single server client, timestamps, detection of network connectivity change (so it disconnects quicker without lag), etc. It’s still a work in progress, so feel free to give feedback and ideas.

Go to the site.

The chatwindow GUI hasn’t been fully implemented yet, I’ll put up a mockup that was done for me showing what I eventually want it to look like a bit later.

As usual, feedback is appreciated.

On a side note, I’m well into my exam period, wish me luck

**NOTE**:
This won’t save your preferences, just the install file. Also, if you end up screwing up your phone, don’t blame me, kthx.

Pretty simple method:

1) Grab the SDK and extract it, you need adb: Download it here
2) Install the USB driver and keep the phone connected.
3) On the phone, open the app you want to save the apk for.
4) Open up shell/command prompt, cd to the sdk/tools folder.
5) Find the app package name. Run ‘adb -d logcat’ (or ‘adb -d logcat > somefile.txt’ if you prefer to get the info from a file). You can also use ‘adb -d shell top > file.txt’ and then leave it for about 10 seconds before stopping it (ctrl+c))
6) Look for something like: “Displayed Activity: com.some.package/.some.file: 100ms” The important part is “com.some.package”. If you used ‘adb -d shell top > file.txt’, look for the package names of running apps and see which one is likely to be the one you want.
7) Run ‘adb -d pull /data/app/com.some.package.apk savedFile.apk’.

Congrats, savedFile.apk is your market app, saved for later installs.

To install it, use ‘adb -d install /path/to/apk’

Example with Bubble app on the market (Click for larger):

Bug reports, feedback and/or constructive criticism welcome (via email preferred).