4th & Mayor - App Blog
Check for it using the Marketplace app later today, it will begin rolling out worldwide this afternoon.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c7d13b8d-9951-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Big Changes
- Quick Check-in now respects your Foursquare settings preferences for pinging Facebook & Twitter
- New Live Tile Studio for organizing, customizing, renaming, and enjoying pinned places.
- Fixed bugs where places pinned to the start would disappear after a phone restart.
- Performance improvements and user experience tweaks
- Integrates with Bing Local Search on the phone
- Supports Windows Phone 7.5 features like fast app switching
- Lists support from Foursquare, the new way for sharing information about places and tips, replaces “todos”
- Maps of nearby friends
- Maps from place pages will show your current location and the destination place
Changes and Features of Note
- More fluid transitions between pages and experiences
- Checkin photos appear inline when looking at all your friends’ check-ins
- Checking in will no longer show places from far away when you’ve been on the move
- More informative progress messages during data operations
- Checkin photos can be marked as being viewable by everyone or just your friends
- Adds direct Leaderboard access from the main application bar
- The app’s small icon now matches your accent color instead of the bright red background
- You can find more friends quickly by searching through your phone’s contacts
- Simplified experience for learning more about a friends’ check-in
- Better privacy: the app no longer uses your anonymized ID or device ID for push registration
Minor Changes
- After checking in, you’ll get information about the services that were pinged with your check-in for confirmation
- Adds a confirmation when you hit ‘sign out’ app bar menu item
- The legal information is shown if you come back to the page from elsewhere on the phone or app
- You can now view the high resolution profile image of people
- A full resolution user photo will be used when pinning people to the start screen
- There is a dedicated settings page now, it is no longer hidden away in the your profile page
- Supports the selection of the classic tile for those who loved it
Foursquare “Expertise” Badges
Announced a few days ago, the sweet expertise badges work great on every version of 4th & Mayor out there.
Enjoy, and happy badge-collecting!
New in the v3.0 release (coming soon): a simplified main menu:
- separate settings page and profile links
- easy access to notifications and live tile settings
- leaderboard access
Version 2.7 is now in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
- Fixes a lot of reported crashes and bugs, thank you all!
- If you’re running Windows Phone 7.5, you can now pin places to start once the place loads
- You can delete your own photos plus flag any photo
