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Twitter acquires creative start-up screen lock Smart Cover and integrates its developers.
Twitter buys Cover, a startup that has developed one of the best applications for customization of the Android interface. As the launcher Aviate or Snapdragon Glance , App Cover assumes that the user does not seek the same applications in the evening and the morning, home and office.
Thereby locking the screen Custom Cover offers proposed by the applications that are of interest to the user at a given moment, based on an analysis of its habits. In addition to this clever feature, Cover also offers other features related to the interface as its preview system or a multitasking system. To learn more about the features of the app, please see this article .
The fact that Twitter wants to turn bombard your lock screen with tweets would not be devoid of all logic. After all, the launcher instead seem to be part of trends in the Android ecosystem. Facebook has already made its attempt launching Facebook Home . Yahoo acquired Aviate . One can also mention the partnership with Mozilla EverythingMe which aims to bring a little touch of Firefox OS on your Android interface (the best pub).
But the blog publishing Cover suggests that Twitter is more interested application developers and their expertise to it. It also announced the development of Cover will end as the team behind the app will "create something even better in Twitter" and focus their attention on their new work in the latter.
As for the Cover application, it will remain available on Play Store, at least for the moment.