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title: (Part 2) ATCS --- Flamingo
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date: 2016-12-08
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Flamingo is a relatively new Twitter client, created by
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Sam Runston. It goes for \$2.79USD on the Google Play store, and
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frankly, is a solid Twitter client. Battery performance is fine, and
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performance is great.
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#### Customizability
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It is a fantastic app for Twitter, and it one of the more customizable
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clients if you like that sort of thing. You can tweak all the individual
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colours, or pick from a pre-made theme. You can change the fonts, how
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and where the pages are and look, and a whole lot more (actually while
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writing this review I found a way to turn off the giant navbar at the
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top, so bonus points!) through the settings. It might seem a bit
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overwhelming, and for the most part I left it with the default theme
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with some small tweaks.
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For you night mode lovers, there is a beautiful implementation here. You
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can tweak the highlight colour to your liking and also the background,
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between dark, black, and "midnight blue". Of course, you can also set a
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timeframe for when you want this mode enabled -- one slightly annoying
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thing is you can't have it enabled all the time, however the theming
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options available should compensate for that fact.
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#### Syncing
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Retrieving tweets from Twitter's servers was always very snappy and
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fast, and I noticed to real performance hit in terms of battery or CPU
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usage when having tweet streaming on. I definitely recommend you turn it
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on -- I did not test it with background syncing enabled, and didn't
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really see any need to turn it on during my week with the app. There is
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Tweet Marker support, which comes in handy if you use clients, and I did
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leave it enabled (as I usually do).
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There is a built-in proxy server setting, which is nice if you want to
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browse only Twitter using a proxy server. There are also several other
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options for turning off all retweets or replies, disabling auto refresh
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on startup and tweeting, and even has a setting for TeslaUnread so you
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can pick if you'd like to see unread notifications or tweets in your
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timeline (I assume you'll need to enable background sync for this to
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work properly.
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#### Notifications
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Notifications, as with any third party Twitter app I've tried, were slow
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to come in but seemed to be much more quick when the app was recently
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launched. I don't know if this is a Twitter API restriction or just an
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Android oddity, but I'm willing to guess it has to do with Twitter's
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rate limiting. Regardless, plenty of options here. You can enable
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notifications for individual accounts, as well as which notifications to
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show for each account (mentions, DMs, new followers, etc). There are
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also options to enable notifications only from verified accounts, if you
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interact with those enough, and allowing you to see which account
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received the notification, which as a multi-account user I left on.
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#### Other notes
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I love Flamingo so much -- the number of options it gives you to make
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your setup truly unique is astounding. Individual themes per account,
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*alternate app icons*, composition notifications, there is so much you
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can do with this app. I have some minor issues, like it confusing my
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accounts timelines, direct messages, or notifications, but overall it is
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a solid app that I highly recommend to those who want to get the
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absolute most out of their Twitter client.
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[Get Flamingo on the Google Play
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Store -- \$2.79](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.twitter&hl=en)
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