Description

Inspired by @TheBatTaps twitter feed, this app reads a twitter feed for specially formatted messages describing beers on tap at a pub, turning them into a list of what's currently on tap. It also helps with maintaining one of these lists if you're a pub manager/worker.

Download

A fairly up-to-date build will be available on phonegap build.

I don't have any developer accounts on Google Play, Apple etc, so only debug builds are available. There is no IOS build at all.

The only device I've tested on so far is a Samsung Galaxy S2, Android 4.0.3, so your mileage may vary.

Licence

MIT Licence, see LICENCE.txt

For following a pub's twitter feed

At the moment you don't need to authorise with twitter just to view a pub's feed. Just click the "Follow" button and add the pubs your interested in.

However, with the twitter API v1 being deprecated, you may need to authenticate the app in the near future.

As a tool for bar staff

If you go to the settings page and authenticate with a twitter account, then add that same account as somebody to follow, the app will show a different page allowing you to add, change or remove beers and get the tweet format correct automatically.

Authentication

There are two authentication methods, "Browser" and "PIN". Browser should be considered the default for authentication on a real device, and PIN is only there to make testing in a browser easier/possible. You are of course free to use this on a mobile device, but it's a bit of a hassle cutting and pasteing.

Plans/bugs

See the issues page for plans and known bugs.

Tweet format

You can still of course do the tweets by hand if they're in the correct format.

There's a demo feed here: @BeerTapDemo.

Tweets must follow this simple format:

OFF: Some beer
ON: Another brew

There must be a new line between commands.

Multiple OFF or ON commands per tweet is ok, but the order within a single tweet is important. For example, the following has the net effect of doing nothing - the second line cancels the first out:

ON: Malty Goodness
OFF: Malty Goodness

A single command is also ok. For example, these are also valid:

OFF: Different booze

or

ON: Tasty stuff

The app collects these together in chronological order and cancels out any previous ONs with an OFF so you end up with a list of current beers on tap.

For example, if these tweets were collected:

ON: Holy Hops
---
OFF: Malty Goodness
ON: Worts And All
---
ON: Magic Bevvy
---
OFF: Holy Hops
ON: Great Grog

You'd end up with this list:

• Worts And All
• Magic Bevvy
• Great Grog