Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk client)

Posted by jedi3335 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @10:40PM
from the show-hn dept.

I've been working on this for a few months since I got my Surface RT, and realized there wasn't a solid gtalk/gchat app. It's a C#/XAML app, and I ended up writing my own XMPP stack on-top of raw sockets since there wasn't a good open source one available (that would run in RT). I'll open source my XMPP library on GitHub shortly once I've cleaned it up a bit.

Check it out!

Store link: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/gabberwocky/2d7a19c5-2522-461c-8706-99ff59bd84fe

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gabberwockyapp

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by pnictogen15 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:01AM (#5217832)

Thanks! I had been waiting for a decent GTalk client on my Win8 PC. Will download it today once I reach home. Do you have support for video chats?

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by jedi3335 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:20AM (#5217880)

Right now it just supports 1:1 text chats. My plan is to do group chat next, then add support for Video/Voice.

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by Maascamp on Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:03AM (#5217836)

It looks promising. Is the password stored locally? And if not will you be supporting OAuth?

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by jedi3335 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @12:19AM (#5217877)

The password isn't stored locally, I use oauth 2.0 (and also support folks with 2-factor auth enabled!)

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by jacalulu on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:18PM (#5223596)

Great job, love the look of it!

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by jedi3335 on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:54PM (#5223763)

Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: My first Windows 8 app, GabberWocky (a gtalk cli... by jedi3335 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @10:43PM (#5217558)

oh, and feedback is greatly appreciated :)

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