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hey everybody Josh here for android authority yet again and I wanted to show you all one of my favorite Twitter apps probably my favorite the one I'm using regularly now it's called tweet lanes by Chris Lacey some of you've probably heard of him this launcher excuse me I launcher a twitter app actually came out a little while ago but i just started using it I was never really a big Twitter user and once I got back into writing I figured well I should get back in again in case somebody tweets me something really important you'll see right here it's got just the coolest icon this very happy looking bluebird he's on what appeared to be three orange lines but when you open it up you'll really see why I have fallen in love with it right off the bat it is you know the Ice Cream Sandwich jelly bean Android design guidelines top to bottom we've got all of the holo theme swiping that you need and it's really really really a buttery smooth some might say now he also incorporated a feature called vol scroll or vole scroll volume scroll I said it's great for bigger screens that you can use the volume keys to actually scroll up and down one tweet now I'm still an old-school touch guys so I go up and down but you'll see that it's very very quick up here you can tap this I've got my twitter account added at Josh munos you should certainly add me I'm trying to become a more active user you can add an account so you can support multiple accounts which is very very cool swipe over and you can see your profile if you choose to enable that my location my link all of that stuff hopping into the settings menu this is where it really really gets great I also recommend if you use it now do free for life he says Chris lacy the developer says as a development continues some premium features are going to be added in but if you get in early enough those premium features will be free to you if you simply tap free for life and send out a tweet that you know promotes and talks about it anyways hopping back into the settings menu we can do holo light or holo dark themes which is very very cool now this is one of my favorite favorite parts of tweet lands the customized lanes Shin every swipeable you know section in this app is called Elaine so you'll see that the ones that I have enabled their my profile mentions direct messages and favorites but you can really enable any combination of these your tweets tweets that have been retweeted you can't ever disable the timeline duh and following and followers so let's just do my tweets and retweets of me which are probably not many because I'm not super active yet as I've mentioned before but all of a sudden here my tweets just my tweets and a couple of them talking about tweet lane you just saw and then retweets of me oh really liking tweet lanes that was retweeted that's great and so those are in front of the timeline now one thing I would like to see is being able to rearrange the order that the lanes rain but I would imagine that this is a pretty logical order your profile your tweets retweets of you and then you're at the actual timeline which is where things get great also following the great holo design guidelines is if you tap the top of the line you hop all the way back up to the top which is just great so let's turn off these ones that I never ever use done I'll font size very standard stuff here profile image size medium for me tweet source I've disabled but you can display the name of the application just like when you're looking at twitter com it'll tell you what the person used to tweet I have enabled vol scroll which i debuted or I demonstrated earlier quote format you can do standard quote retweet with a comment or via at that person's Twitter handle you can download images let me scroll down and see if I can find an example of this so blaze this guy right here I might grow up someday but not today and he's used instagram to upload a photo so it actually shows a small preview and then when you tap it it makes the image preview larger which is a really really cool feature and i haven't even gotten to the coolest feature yet which is what I've been saving for the end you can empty the image cache right there filter feed so you can hide replies or hide retweets I choose to do neither but at the bottom this is where tweet lanes really get special there's not a new tweet box now obviously I can do a new tweet from this ball exit says what's happening but it's actually a context-sensitive tweet box so and that if I long press on this guy for example I get a new context sensitive menu I can read we do I can favorite it I can share it through some form or fashion but the context-sensitive box actually lets me reply to him just by long pressing on his handle now if you want to send a certain tweet or apply to more than one user you can actually long press more than one at a time let's make sure this works because I know I've done it before so we can you add I GN let's do come on at blaze and write their reply to at IGN and at blaze which is very very cool and really really makes this in my opinion one of the best twitter clients on android if not the best the one thing that i do have to knock it for is that there aren't notifications built in yet but as chris lacey has been working on a new kind of launcher called action launcher i believe he hasn't been developing actively on this and he says that as soon as action launcher comes out into a public beta we will see notifications be coded into tweet lanes so very very cool twitter app if you're looking for something new and fresh and really want something that will use the design guidelines that android has set forth it is free it is called tweet lanes and you can find it in the google play store