appazaar 0.6b is out in the Market Store!

After a lot of work during the last week are proud to release the new version! We worked a lot on the power consumption and performance but we also changed the layout :) Take a look yourself and be prepared for the upcoming 0.7 for which we’re already giving a tiny preview in this release! We hope you like the new version! Please let us know if you have troubles with it or any ideas to improve it!

new widget layout

Changelog:
*new layout
*less battery usage
*less gps usage
*performance tweaks

appazaar 0.6 in the Market

The week since the official release in the Market Store was pretty interesting for us. We got a lot of different feedback and now we’re proud to release another update. As we implemented some major changes we increased the version number to 0.6 and hope that it’ll make appazaar even more useful and less buggy :)

beta 0.6

The changelog is pretty short but I can assure you that it was a lot of work:
* performance issues
* navigating with trackball

appazaar Beta 2 released to the Market

Today is a big day for us as we just released the second beta to the Market Store. So from now on you guys will get every update directly and I guess there’ll be some during the next days ;)

We also would like you to give us detailed feedback if you feel like it. As this is still a beta feedback is important for us to be able to continue developping appazaar with respect to your ideas! So don’t hesitate if something is bothering you or you have an idea on your mind :)

appazaar WidgetContext tag editor

Since the first beta we improved appazaar a lot but the most significant changes for you will be these:

* context tags: You now have the possibility to describe your current situation with a few words like “home, lunch” or “working” to improve the quality of the recommendations.
* less traffic: We reduced the traffic a lot with zipping everything and scaling the icons down. So there is less data to commit!
* recommending: On the server side we’re now using different algorithms that still need to be trained more, but that already should recommend more interesting apps for you.

Happy new year & new appazaar version soon

We hope you all had a good start of 2010 and just want to let you know that we’re not lazy at all! The next and improved version of appazaar will be released soon and by soon we mean before the end of the month ;)
It’ll offer some new features, including so called “context tags” and a better recommendation system on the server side. We also improved the performance and worked on the battery usage. And… well, we’ll let you know about all the details once we finished working and are ready to release ;)

Oh and I shouldn’t forget to mention that we’re also planning on releasing the upcoming version in the Android Market Store as well!

Stay tuned :)