New version released

Yesterday we already upgraded our server with a new algorithm for running the recommender system, and today we are happy to release a new version of the app to the market. The most prominent feature is the screen with the recommendations. We listened to your feedback – many many thanks for that – and today we are happy to release to most demanded feature: appazaar now provides its recommendations within the app. So, if you don’t like it, you don’t need to use the widget anymore.

Please keep going on giving us feedback! We really like to meet your requirements for a perfect app recommender. For the next release, we are planning to re-design the UI and provide some smaller features to round up the recommender system.

You can use this QR-tag to download the new version of appazaar.

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New version (finally) available

Hey there, we got some good news for you ;)

While you’ve been looking for new apps using the lastest version of appazaar, we baked a new version with a lot of improvements and integrated a lot of your feedback as well as our own ideas into it! And now, after a long time of testing, it is finally available in the Market :D

This is what the new mobile app looks like:

This are our changes in detail:

  • “What are you just doing?”: Our recommendations are now tailored to your activity! Just answer the question and tell us something about your current activity to get the right apps.
  • Tags for your activity: So far you had to insert free text to describe your activity. Now you can use tags to describe your current context more quickly. And in addition you can now connect appazaar with Facebook! The tags you insert into the widget are directly posted to your status on Facebook :)
  • Blacklist: An app recommendation appears all the time and you don’t like it? Now you’re able to get rid of it by adding apps to a blacklist which can be edited within the settings.
  • Scrolling: You are now able to scroll through our recommendations from page to page directly within the widget. We think, this is a good tradeoff between widget size and the number of recommendations. What do you think?
  • Battery usage (GPS): Moritz did a really great job to improve the performance and battery usage. Nevertheless, for now we can not completely abandon the use of GPS positioning. Specially in areas with bad wireless/wifi coverage or insufficient accuracy appazaar falls back on gps positioning. There are already some more ideas in the pipeline to reduce this further and we’re confident to be able to minimize the usage of GPS further with the upcoming versions!

So just update appazaar or download it via the Market Store and let us know what you think about it ;)

(If you experience some issues after updating, please try a clean reinstall before submitting a bugreport!)

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