App of the Week: Twidroyd (Twidroid)

The App: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.twidroid 

The Good: Twidroyd is a Twitter client for Android. It covers the basics of sending tweets, viewing tweets from your followed users, and searching for topics. Works better for me than Seesmic, another popular Twitter client, did. (Seesmic wouldn't follow tweets from users I followed after getting the app.) Has an option to turn off the "live preview" feature, which is good if it annoys you (like it did me). Edit: You can install themes, basically different color schemes, to change the look to something other than Twitter Blue.

The Bad: Interface is a little counter-intuitive, but that doesn't bother me much because my counter-intuitive can be another person's perfect. Doesn't seem to want to show my retweets in my Twitter feed, but Seesmic didn't either so maybe that's standard. Except that I can't find my retweets ANYWHERE, and that's a problem. Won't download themes or show trending topics, for reasons unknown to me. Edit: I tried downloading a theme this morning and it worked. Weird. There is a bug in its menu that lets you scroll up past the top items into an area of white space, and then when you scroll back down the menu items have disappeared and you have to exit the menu and re-open it. Doesn't hurt anything that I can see, but it's annoying.

The Bottom Line: Meh. It works, but not perfectly. I'd recommend trying a different client. (The only reason I'm not switching is that I've already been through two and I don't feel like taking on another one right now.)