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

7 points by jedi3335 13 years ago | 7 comments

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

pnictogen15 13 years ago |

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?

jedi3335 13 years ago | |

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

Maascamp 13 years ago |

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

jedi3335 13 years ago | |

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

jacalulu 13 years ago |

Great job, love the look of it!

jedi3335 13 years ago | |

Thanks!

jedi3335 13 years ago |

oh, and feedback is greatly appreciated :)