March 2012
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GigBeat Design Decision 4: Empty Screens
This is a series of short articles, highlighting some of the design decision behind GigBeat 1.2.
GigBeat Design Decision 1: Event screen
GigBeat Design Decision 2: ICS
GigBeat Design Decision 3: Tablet UI
GigBeat aggregates lots of information that comes from various sources like Songkick, Last.fm or even our own Base. Some of those pieces of information depend on an account or an active...
GigBeat Design Decision 3: Tablet UI
This is a series of short articles, highlighting some of the design decision behind GigBeat 1.2.
GigBeat Design Decision 1: Event screen
GigBeat Design Decision 2: ICS
Not long after GigBeat 1.0 was released, a handful of people asked if we were planing on a dedicated tablet version.
We were brainstorming a little about this, and decided against it. Not only did we have a lot more important...
GigBeat Design Decision 2: ICS
This is a series of short articles, highlighting some of the design decision behind GigBeat 1.2.
GigBeat Design Decision 1: Event screen
Android 4.0 introduced a whole new design language. Almost everything about the operating system got reworked somehow. If you’re really ambitious about an application, you want to make sure that it feels perfectly in place with all the other native...
GigBeat Design Decision 1: Event screen
This is a series of short articles, highlighting some of the design decision behind GigBeat 1.2.
When we released the first version of GigBeat in early September 2011, we didn’t expect a lot of interest in the app. And why should we? There were similar apps out there. But those didn’t felt right to us, somehow.
We spent a lot of time figuring out how we approach searching for good...
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Gigbeat 1.2 - A look into tablet development
As the third day at Mobile World Congress comes to a close it is time to share some info on the tablet launch for Gigbeat. Early on we decided it was smart to adopt the fragments API for Android even though we knew that we weren’t ready to release a full tablet version of Gigbeat. The tablet screen has tons of real estate and we didn’t feel we really had the content to make the...
February 2012
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Gigbeat 1.2 - Beta
We are excited to announce that Gigbeat 1.2 is available as a beta! Version 1.2 is packed with lots of changes to both improve the existing experience as well as add new features. One of my favorite new features of the release is our changes to the artist screen. The artist screen prior to version 1.2 was very simple. All that was available was tour dates. We knew early on that more information...
Another GigBeat 1.2 Preview
We just love Android. We also love big tablet screens for wasting time on our couches. But to be honest, there aren’t too many really satisfying apps out there that make good use of the big screen. It’s about time we change that. We will be revealing GigBeat 1.2 with tablet support at MWC. Here’s another sketch, to tease you a little bit more.
GigBeat 1.2 Preview
We will be revealing GigBeat 1.2 at the Mobile World Congress beginning of the week. Just to get you guys as excited as we are, here are some new things you can expect:
Visual redesign - We know, we know, GigBeat worked good enough for searching events. But it lacked the real excitement that you get when going to a live show, right? We changed that with lots of big photos, more data and a...
Mobile World Congress
We haven’t published a lot of updates in the last couple of weeks and here’s why. We’re going to Mobile World Congress, and we’re bringing a brand new release of GigBeat along. We were selected as a finalist from the AppCircus 2011, and will be pitching GigBeat against 19 other great apps in Barcelona, on the 27th of February.
So, obviously we have been working day and...
January 2012
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Gigbeat 1.1.1 - Now Available
Hey All!
We just released a bug fix update for Gigbeat 1.1 that includes a bunch of fixes for some pretty annoying bugs. As always if you have any issues feel free to send an e-mail to support@gigbeat.fm and we will get right on it.
Here’s what we fixed:
-Fixed bug causing Songkick artist list to not completely load.
-When browsing near you artists, clicking will show you the shows...
How it all started
I love live music. No matter if a small familiar club or a sunny festival - the louder the better. So when Michael Novak asked me to help him create an Android app for gigs a couple of months ago, I was all in from the start. He wanted to participate in the New York Music Hackday, and wanted me to help him out with a couple of simple layouts, icons and assets.
This sounded quite easy and...
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Gigbeat 1.1 - Now Available
We are very excited to announce that Gigbeat 1.1 is now available in the Android Market. This release has tons of new features and lots of fixes for issues found in 1.0.
Here’s a summary of what’s new!
* You can now check-in to concerts using foursquare from any Gigbeat event detail page! All the concerts that you check-in to will be listed under your My Gigs screen as past gigs.
*...
October 2011
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Gigbeat Update
In addition to packing in some really awesome features into the next version of Gigbeat we have been preparing for the new version of Android. The next version of Gigbeat will fully support the new Galaxy Nexus resolution as well as Android 4.0. You should expect to see this release out within the next few weeks. Thanks for being patient!
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Sneak peek at Gigbeat 1.1
Here’s a look at the new app widget, part of Gigbeat 1.1 due out Oct. 11th. The app widget allows users to see their starred gigs right on their home screen! This is one of the many new features you’ll find in the next version of Gigbeat.
September 2011
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Gigbeat Goes International!
Today, Gigbeat version 1.0.2 is available in the Android Market and it comes with added support for German and Spanish users! In addition to support 2 new languages the ability to add an event to your calendar has been released. Version 1.0.2 also fixes several reported bugs.
Grab the new version: https://market.android.com/details?id=fm.gigbeat.android
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Gigbeat 1.0.1 update live in the market
GigBeat version 1.0.1 has been released to the Android Market. If you have not seen the recent changes show up in the market I’ve listed them below.
Version 1.0.1 Changelog
* Fixed a few unexpected force closes of the app. * Added the ability to untrack an artist. * Few visual clean ups.
market: https://market.android.com/details?id=fm.gigbeat.android : website: http://gigbeat.fm
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GigBeat 1.0 now in the Android Market!
Today marks the release of GigBeat 1.0 in the Android Market! You can now download the app for Android devices running version 2.1 or higher.
Below is a short list of the features in GigBeat
* Scan the artists in your music library to see when they are on tour.
* Location based search to see upcoming shows near you.
* Receive notifications when your artists add new tour dates.
* Search for...
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