What's new in v2012-09-10?
- Added shortcut for Explore Map.
- Mayorship and badge unlocks on cards in Friends tab.
- Streamlined comment sending on checkin details.
- OpenTable links on venue pages.
What's new in v2012-08-28
- Fixed bug where add-photo dialog wasn't displaying correctly.
What's new in v2012-08-27
- New card styles for Likes in the Friends tab.
What's new in v2012-08-21
- Better paging of venue photos.
- 1-click sign-in with Facebook.
- Duplicate flagging from venues checkin list (on long click).
What's new in v2012-08-09
- Bug fixes and updated translations.
What's new in v2012-08-07
- New design for tip cards.
- Bug fixes and speed improvements.
What's new in v2012-07-19
- Page Updates!
- New notifications style.
What's new in v2012-06-28
- Plugins!
- Showing events on activity cards.
What's new in v2012-06-14
- Updating photo count in Me block after taking a photo.
- Updates to some visual styles.
- Bug fixes.
What's new in v2012-06-08
- Fix for users running Eclair.
What's new in v2012-06-07
What's new in v2012-05-20
- Links for Privacy and TOS from splash screen.
What's new in v2012-03-30
- Showing more tips on venue tip pages.
What's new in v2012-03-09
What's new in v2012-02-27
- Fix for search bug when no network connection available.
- Edit field for checkin comment is now multi-line.
What's new in v2012-02-24
- Added refresh button to titlebar of checkin screen.
- Added send-comment button to checkin details screen.
What's new in v2012-02-23
- Bug fixes for the 2-08 release.
- In-line commenting on Check-in Details.
- Updated language translations.
- Android Beam now redirects to the Android Market if receiving user doesn't have Foursquare.
What's new in v2012-02-08
- New Explore!
- Support for Android Beam on Venue page, and Me page.
- Improved scrolling speed throughout the app.
What's new in v2012-01-18
- Venue menus.
- Workaround for GPS bug affecting some devices.
- Updated layout for pre-check-in screen.
- Venue map zooming for nearby vs worldwide.
What's new in v2011-12-24
What's new in v2011-12-21
What's new in v2011-12-20
- User page redesign.
- Add-venue duplicates handling.
- Bucketing checkins on checkin history page.
- Splash screen gallery.
What's new in v2011-11-18
What's new in v2011-11-17
- Share checkins from the checkin details screen.
- Showing friend suggestions on the Me tab.
- Login with Facebook if already connected through the Foursquare website.
What's new in v2011-10-13
- Help messages shown when location providers are turned off during checkin.
- New app icon.
- Photo attributions.
What's new in v2011-10-06
- Option to remove a friend from the user details page.
- Clicking header on user page takes you to their last checkin.
- Photo gallery fixes for devices running Honeycomb.
What's new in v2011-09-29
- Lists for Android! Wooo!
- Points for check-ins are now in the post check-in screen.
- Connect your Twitter account via the Settings screen.
- Sort Friends by Nearby or Worldwide on Friends screen. Hit the menu or list footer.
What's new in v2011-09-06
- Fixed a bug where attaching a photo during check in could cause a force-close.
What's new in v2011-08-31
- Five new languages added (Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Thai).
What's new in v2011-08-29
- Now showing events attached to places.
- Photos in-line in Friend tab.
- Venue page redesign.
- Checkin details page redesign.
What's new in v2011-08-15
- Access to header bar buttons for devices that support scrolling.
- Fixed bug where mayor photo on venue page would not always load.
What's new in v2011-08-11
- New redesign for titlebars and tabs, check in button added to titlebar.
- Explore redesigned with specials and more.
- Added support for managing Facebook and Twitter sharing from Settings page.
- Venue photos gallery redesign.
- Share photo with venue when checking in.
- Added option to save photos to SD card from Settings page.
- Viewing items in notification tray clears push notifications in notification manager.
What's new in v2011-07-24
- Working on geolocation settings to get more accurate nearby places.
- Updated translations.
What's new in v2011-07-12
- Starting this week, foursquare Specials will include 'Deals' - deep
discounts that you buy ahead of time - from five amazing companies:
LivingSocial, Gilt City, BuyWithMe, AT&T Interactive, and zozi.
What's new in v2011-07-09
- Add Venue redesign.
- My check-in updated immediately after check-in.
- Startup fix for Android 1.6 users.
What's new in v2011-07-05
- Notification tray, accessible from the header bar.
- Settings page redesigned with support for more features found on the foursquare.com website.
- New option in settings for clearing your search history.
What's new in v2011-06-09
- Pending friend count now shown in Me screen with other friend info.
- Fixed bug where friend requests weren't appearing in friend request screen.
What's new in v2011-06-07
- Added additional language strings for Spanish locale.
- Fixed alignment issue for toggle buttons on Friends tab.
- Additional bug fixes.
- Tip details now show associated url attribute if present.
What's new in v2011-06-01
- Fixed problem for non-english locales where metric system would be stuck in Imperial.
What's new in v2011-05-31
- Added click-through on leaderboard element in post check-in screen.
- Added click-through on popular tip element in post check-in screen.
- Added new translations for Japanese locale.
What's new in v2011-05-28
- Updated sign up and login screens.
- New add friends screens.
- Friends top tab buttons renamed Nearby and Worldwide.
- URLs clickable in specials screens and in checkin list items.
- Added support for reading NFC tags containing Foursquare URLs.
What's new in v2011-04-15
- Fixed translation bug in Japanese locale.
What's new in v2011-04-13
- Added option in settings to use metric or imperial system for distances.
- Add photos to tips.
What's new in v2011-03-10
- Fixed layout bug for Android 1.6 users on user details page.
- Improved Explore scrolling.
- Added additional locale strings.
What's new in v2011-03-08
- New Explore tab added for recommendations.
- New leaderboard.
- New user details pages.
- New specials 2.0.
What's new in v2011-02-17
- Hitting the back key from a notification will exit the application.
- Header bar added to search screen.
What's new in v2011-02-14
- Push notifications enabled (c2dm) for Android 2.2 and above users. You can choose to be notified on friend checkins, comments, badge unlocks.
- Localization for French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
- New header bar.
What's new in v2011-01-24
- Pings are back.
- Clicking a row in the Friends widget moves to checkin details page.
- Clicking "last seen" item in user details page moves to checkin details page.
- Add friends page cleaned up.
What's new in v2011-01-06
- Checkin history items now show photo/comment counts.
- You can delete a comment/photo on a checkin by long-pressing the corresponding item in the checkin details screen.
- Added error handling for Places widget when user's location is not available.
- Add-comment text field now capitalizes sentences.
What's new in v2010-12-22
- Photos/comments shown on each checkin row of Friends tab.
- You can add photos/comments to checkins of friends.
- Add a photo while checking in.
- Redesigned checkin screen.
- Add photos to a venue.
- Flag / delete photos.
- Redesigned friends widget.
- New places widget.
- (+01: fixed bug for Android 2.1 and below users experiencing force-close after adding a comment).
What's new in v2010-12-15
- You can now click on a user name or venue name in the Friends list.
- Showing venue description in venue details map view (if present).
What's new in v2010-12-06
- New trophy case for badges.
- Source attribution appears in checkin items in Friends tab.
- Popular tip shown in post-checkin dialog.
What's new in v2010-11-12
- Access friend requests directly from the Me tab.
- Filter widget added to friend requests and friends screen (accessed from Me tab).
What's new in v2010-10-27
- If a tip has an attached url, it is now being shown as a clickable link in the
tip details screen.
What's new in v2010-10-22
- Long lists with thumbnails (like user details pages) should be more responsive
while loading.
- Added characters-left widget on add-tip/add-to-do activities.
- Hiding Twitter/Facebook checkboxes in checkin dialog if the user has not linked their
Foursquare account with Twitter/Facebook through the Foursquare website settings page.
- Updated login screen.
- Fix for flag venue info. Submissions were being received, but shown as an error in the app.
- Fix for email invites. Invitations were being sent, but shown as an error in the app.
What's new in v2010-10-05
- Badge description now being shown with badge-unlock in post-checkin dialog.
- Post-checkin scores were not being displayed. Scores were still being recorded
for users on the foursquare servers, just not being shown in the results dialog.
- Venue shortcut-creation bug fixed.
- URLs now being linked in tip/to-do details screen.
What's new in v2010-09-30
- Redesign for most activity screens.
- Tips and To-do screens added as top-level tabs.
- Friend information added to venue pages.
- Can access friend requests from Me tab.
- Can now refresh Me tab.
- Switched from xml to json for API calls.
What's new in v2010-08-31
- Option for install to SD card (Android 2.2 and above required).
- Added profile settings information to Preferences page. This is a convenience to let
users see what email address and name they're using with their Foursquare account.
- SSL support.
What's new in v2010-08-05
- Click your user photo in the 'Me' tab to set a new photo for yourself.
- Added an option in preferences to use a Foursquare image viewer for viewing user photos.
Un-check "Image Viewing" to use it instead of your phone's native image viewer (default).
What's new in v2010-07-13
- Bug fix for new category icons (from 2010-07-12 version) which could cause a force-close on the
Places tab.
What's new in v2010-07-12
- Friend requests screen now has an input filter at top, should make it easier to locate specific
friend requests by name.
- Places list items now have a 'special' icon when the venue is offering a special. Also now showing
a person icon when the venue is trending.
- High res category icons being used now.
- Added last n system logs messages to feedback emails to help diagnose application errors.
What's new in v2010-06-28
- Showing recent nearby friend checkins on a map. You can find this on the Friends tab,
Menu -> More -> Map.
- Add Friends screen now has an option to find Facebook friends that are also using Foursquare.
NOTE: There's a render bug in Android for the Facebook login page which makes the username
and password fields misalign when the virtual keypad is displayed, this should be fixed in
Android Froyo.
What's new in v2010-06-16
- The venue activity has a new menu option called 'Edit Venue' which gives you the option to propose
venue edits. These include marking a venue as closed, duplicate, or mislocated. The last option
allows you to update all venue information such as address, name, etc.
- Menu for Friends tab updated to have a 'more' item, which gives the option to sort friend checkins
by time or distance.
- Add friends and find friends items added to 'more' item on Friends tab menu.
- Refresh menu item moved to first position in Places tab to be consistent with Friends tab.
- Fixed bug introduced in v2010-06-07 which was formatting the times of checkins incorrectly in
the Friends tab.
What's new in v2010-06-07
- Now showing the 'add friend' option on user details screens, if not already friends. Should make it
easier to build your network.
- Checkin pings support. A service will wake every N minutes (user-configurable) to check for
new checkins from friends.
- New item on user details pages named 'pings', allows you to turn pings on/off per user. Only applicable
if you have enabled ping notifications for yourself.
- Fix a widget bug that would cause "Application Not Responding" errors.
- Fixed bug for new users on 1.5. The empty friends screen would crash on some android 1.5 devices.
What's new in v2010-05-11
- Friend invites page now has an option to generate a list of contacts not on foursquare for sending
email invites to join. This should make it easier to get friends playing along.
- For new users, the Friends tab will now show a sad face and two buttons 'add friends' & 'friend requests'.
This should make it a little easier for new users to start adding friends.
- Updated default message for venue pages when there are no recent checkins. This was done to make it
clear that the venue page is only showing recent checkins, not a total checkin history.
- Sorting nearby venues by popularity and distance instead of just distance, read here
for more info.
- Updated to SDK level 6.
v2010-04-23
- Default zoom level for venue map is closer to street level.
- Added a new option through preferences which allows user to clear their current geo location
before each venue search. This may help users having issues with geolocation.
- Updated application icon and menu icons for v6 and newer platforms.
- Showing reverse geolocation footer on Places tab.
v2010-04-09
- New check-in button on venue page.
- Added a native sign up screen from the login page.
- Added a 'special' button to the venue page if the venue has a special available.
- Menu added for Me page, makes it easier to get to the Friend Requests page.
- Made quick-check-in off by default instead of on. Users can change this in preferences page.
- Fixed timestamp bug which would place some Droid users in the year 1910.
v2010-03-29
- Update for timestamp formatting.
v2010-03-28
v2010-03-26
- Added user photos to venue tips list.
- Clicking a tip from a venue page displays a new list of options (listing your to-do/completed tips will be added in a future version).
- Clicking on a nearby special shows venue details for that venue on post-checkin screen.
- Clicking on mayor photo in post-checkin screen shows user details.
- Updated distance sorting of venue searches.
v2010-03-23
- This "What's New" page.
- View a user's mayorships through the user details page.
- History times are now formatted.
- Choose startup tab (Friends or Places) through the preferences page.
- Friends checkin tab is sorted by distance and checkin times.
- Added category icons for user history list.
v2010-03-12
- New UI design.
- See user's mayorhip and badge count.
- See your own foursquare history.
- See friends of friends.
- See contact info of friends.
v2010-03-05
- Global Search.
- Add Friends from Preferences page.
- Handle friend requests from Preferences page.
- Click on a user's photo in user details page to see full-size image.