Message erickok

beers 6033 º places 274 º 13:56 Wed 9/21/2011

Dear fellow RateBeerians (with an Android device).



Over the last couple of months I have been working on a totally new applications for Android devices, which will bring a native experience for all important things on RateBeer to your phones and tablets. Some of you have already been testing early alhpa versions, but I am proud to present the first public beta release to you all.



Get it directly from the Android Market.



This is a BETA release, meaning it includes quite some features and has already been tested for some time, yet bugs might still be in there. Although I have put a lot of work into stability and not loosing any ratings, I make no guarantees and you might just encounter a bug. Having said that, I don’t expect you to find bugs and encourage everyone to give the app a try.



Now for the good stuff... what’s already included:

General

- Android 1.6 and up compatible

- Phone and tablet (all resolutions) supported

- Use with or without a RateBeer account

Beers

- Search beers

- Beer details, with style and ABV information and recent user ratings

- Top 50 beers overall

- Top 50 beers by country

- Top 25 (or 50) beers by style

- List of styles (with explanation)

Rating

- Rate beers, with immediate offline saving to never lose any data

- Full offline rating; find the beer you rated when a connection is available again

Users

- User details, with dates, number of ratings and recent ratings

- View all ratings, sorted by name, style, rating or date rated

Places

- Find local places (using a user’s current location)

- Open in Google Maps or call directly

Events (account required)

- Events per country (and state)

- View an event’s location, times and attendees

- Add or remove your name from the attendees list

- Quick add to calendar



Already on the feature request list:



General

- Native Twitter/Facebook/etc. sharing (through their APIs)

Profile

- List friends (and recent activity)

- View and send messages

Beers

- Sort beer search

- Beer ticks

- List where available

Brewers

- List details and all beers from a brewer

Places

- Manual selection of location or normal text entry to find places

- List the available beers

- View and create ratings

- Check-ins

User and brewer search, forums, check-ins, etc.



The app is build as an open source project (copyleft, udner GPL v3) and indeed everyone can contribute in code, documentation, graphics, etc. See http://code.google.com/p/ratebeerforandroid/ You can leave a message here at the RateBeer forums if you just have questions, feature requests or want to join the work.



I want to thank everyone who already helped, including DutchDrebus (graphics), Zach (ideas and the original icon), joet (for RateBeer!), jfm (for the original RateBeer Mobile app) and all th

Message erickok

beers 6033 º places 274 º 14:01 Wed 9/21/2011

Apparently there is a hard character limit to post without notification so here is the end of my message:



I want to thank everyone who already helped, including DutchDrebus (graphics), Zach (ideas and the original icon), joet (for RateBeer!), jfm (for the original RateBeer Mobile app) and all the alpha testers.



I am at Borefts on Saturday to receive your gifts in the form of free beer. ;)



Cheers,

Eric

Message mikeschuld

beers 58 º places 2 º 14:06 Wed 9/21/2011

I was planning on picking up the old source for the app that was previously available and updating it. Looks like you beat me to it!

Message MiP

beers 18001 º places 31 º 14:13 Wed 9/21/2011

An impressive list of features. A few minutes of testing shows that it is also very fast.







I cannot log in, though: Command failed unexpectedly. Connection is poor of Ratebeer is offline.

Message douglas88

P admin beers 11391 º places 375 º 14:17 Wed 9/21/2011

Yes, looks good but I also cannot log in



Message smith4498

beers 4231 º places 20 º 14:18 Wed 9/21/2011

Originally posted by MiP



I cannot log in, though: Command failed unexpectedly. Connection is poor of Ratebeer is offline.





Same here Same here

Message OldGrowth

beers 3473 º places 204 º 14:23 Wed 9/21/2011

I am app deficient in the scheme of things, how does this work as opposed to just using browser to access rate beer? I am going to look, but was hoping someone could summarize why an app might be better...

Message erickok

beers 6033 º places 274 º 14:28 Wed 9/21/2011

An app might be better because it provides an interface fit for a phone, provides additional features such as localization and notifications, might be used when a connection is unavailable and might be quicker than a website. On the other hand I don’t expect it to offer the full feature set and it will obviously never replace RateBeer.com.



To all with login problems: I am sorry to hear this and hope to resolve this soon. Mail me at [email protected] (or message me here) if you want to help. Ideal would be to have temporary access to one’s account, for easy debugging. Thanks for your patience.