txeet is an app that makes texting fun, and is free to download from Android Market.
Here, we highlight 3 features that exhibit how txeet is useful.
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1. Send an interesting message
Ever run out of miss-you messages to send to your love ones? Ever felt lost with words to express your how much you treasure a friendship? Need to send a happy birthday that is not so plain?
txeet is here help! Compose messages from over 3000+ templates, and soon you will find there are too many to choose from :)
2. Style your messages
We send messages everyday. But plain text just seems to lack something.
txeet has added an innovative ‘Style it!’ feature that styles text. Choose from the 4 styles – Accented Latin, Random Caps, Scmabrle Eggs and Vwl Removal.
3. Insert emoticon and lingo
We have got good templates, and a unique styling feature from txeet. What’s more?
Emoticons and SMS lingo!
Other features
Three main features of txeet are highlighted above. Of course, that is not all to making texting fun! Other features include:
Vote for your favorites and see what others like
Randomize a template to send
Send via other messaging apps (eg. Google Voice, Handcent)
Send via Email
Contribute templates/lingo/emoticons
Our goal is to make texting fun, and we will be adding more features to achieve our goal. If you have any suggestions, feel free to email us!
Version 1.0.2 has been released, just in time for Halloween! In this new version, you will find Halloween SMS templates added under Occasions & Festivals. Send your friends and family a Halloween message today!
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, May luck be urs on Halloween.
I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween
Nearly 2 months ago, txeet was released for ADC2, abit being incomplete in features. But after 2 months of knock-out development, txeet is finally completed!
We are proud of what txeet can do and we believe it is useful for every mobile user. If you want to know how txeet can make texting fun for you, check it out :)
Submitting txeet for ADC2 is a mixture of many feelings – exciting, frustrating, tiring, regretful, and a great experience.
The decision to join ADC 2 was in early June. The prize (near $2 million in total) is a huge incentive that gets me excited. Who would not. ADC 2 is like American Idol for geeks.
In mid June, I have conceived the idea of txeet. It would be an SMS application with the slogan "have fun texting". I text regularly, and always wish that the native messaging application can do much more. txeet would supplement what the native messaging lacks.
I began brainstorming ideas for 2 weeks, and drafted the design with another 2 weeks. By the time I began implementation/coding, it was late July.
A big mistake I had was to choose Google App Engine (GAE) in Java as the server technology. Pardon me. GAE is great, I love it and it would be my choice for server technology. But I am new to GAE, and there is so much to learn, so many pitfalls to fall into.. I ended up spending 3 tiring weeks to get things done with GAE – implementing Restlets, using JDO, writing queries, doing pagination, serializing/deserializing JSON format, etc..
By the time I am done with the server side, I am left with the last 2 weeks of August to implement the Android client. To begin with, I had not much experience with this new platform. I have co-write only one app for Android.
Time flies, and the dateline (31st August) reached quickly. The android app was only 40% completed, and was also not fully tested. On that last day, I make the decision to drop all the incomplete features. It was regretful, but I had to. I threw away much of the features and was left with just 5%..
I submitted the app just hours before the closing dateline.
I believe I have no chance of winning, but participation counts. To see my app being downloaded, used and voted by Android users would be exciting. I wish the best to all who had created mobile applications for ADC2.
All in all, it is a great experience for the 2 months working on it (:
