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Top10.com selects Cycle Hire Widget Pro for its Android Top 10

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Sep.03, 2010, under Android, Android Market apps, Cycle Hire Widget

Top10.com has selected Cycle Hire Widget Pro as one of its top ten Android apps of the month. Thanks for that – greatly appreciated!

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Compass woes on Android

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.24, 2010, under Android, Android technical articles, Cycle Hire Widget

A few days ago we received the one email we had been dreading from one of our Cycle Hire Widget customers.

“Hey, the directions in the list view do not work correctly, but the compass on the map does. If you change the pitch of your phone then the directions change. It can’t be a calibration issue since the compass on the Google map functions perfectly.”

Our customer was absolutely right. Whatever we tried, we just couldn’t get the compass working right.

But now we have.
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PC Pro magazine awards us “App of the Week”

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.18, 2010, under Cycle Hire Widget

A bit late to our own party – it was given to us last week – but we just noticed that PC Pro magazine awarded us App of the Week!

“Several apps have already appeared that promise to make the Cycle Hire Scheme easier to navigate, but this is the best we’ve found.”

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/08/12/android-app-of-the-week-cycle-hire-widget/

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93% of users rate Cycle Hire Widget “very good” or “excellent”

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.16, 2010, under Cycle Hire Widget

We just noticed this on Androlib:

Of the 139 people that have rated it so far, 93% have rated Cycle Hire Widget “very good” (4*) or “excellent” (5*):

Thanks for the appreciation and comments on Market – makes all the effort worthwhile!

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Cycle Hire Widget 1.5 now available on Android Market

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.15, 2010, under Android, Android Market apps, App Engine, Cycle Hire Widget

Lots of little improvements, and now includes the latest hire station list. Available free right now on Android Market. Check out a video of its features here:

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Cycle Hire Widget featured on Android Market front page

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.10, 2010, under Cycle Hire Widget

We’re really stoked about this… Google is featuring Cycle Hire Widget on the Android Market front page, as well as in top free travel apps.

Cycle Hire Widget version 1.3 is now on Android Market, featuring maps with colour-coded realtime cycle/slot availability, and a favourites feature.

Android Market public feedback to the first 24 hours of version 1.3 has been phenomenal – see below for an unedited view of our current feedback. Thanks everyone for your support – we’re working flat-out to tidy up loose ends and finalise the feature set – you can expect an even better product by this weekend.

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Next version of Cycle Hire Widget due in 24 hours

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.08, 2010, under Cycle Hire Widget

5* all the way…but can we improve upon the feedback we already have? It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it ;) Seriously, everyone, thank you so much for our frankly unbelievable feedback – we never expected this reception – the picture to the right is a genuine screenprint of our feedback on Android Market as of right now, and that’s before we release two (and hopefully three) big-ticket features in under 24 hours from now.

If you’ve already installed Cycle Hire Widget, in 24 hours from now return to Android Market, select Downloads, and you should be prompted to update. If you’ve not already installed, find us on Android Market, or just scan the QR code below:

Scan this image to download Cycle Hire Widget from Android Market

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Welcome! Visiting us from the Google App Engine blog? Read on!

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.06, 2010, under Android, Android Market apps, App Engine, Cycle Hire Widget

We’ve just been featured as a case study on Google’s App Engine blog. In a very positive article, Google calls our “[Cycle Hire Widget for Android] application and its launch one of the most exciting success stories so far in 2010″. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out!

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Cycle Hire Widget for Android first with *correct* TfL live data!

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.06, 2010, under Cycle Hire Widget

Around half of the time, TfL’s live data website is wrong, so whilst we pioneered realtime display of cycles and slots at hire stations (being live with this feature by 10am on the morning of the scheme’s launch, days before other platforms), we were only as good as the data, so it wasn’t always accurate.

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New version of Cycle Hire Widget now available on Android Market

by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Aug.06, 2010, under Android, App Engine, Cycle Hire Widget

Version 1.2 of Cycle Hire Widget is now available free on Android Market, including the most-requested new feature from our users: you can now run it as a standalone app, without requiring a widget.

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