Today, the combined company "Posters" and "Rambler" has released a new version of the
application "Posters" for the iPhone , which is one of the most popular applications in the Russian AppStore.
The "Posters" application is a convenient way to choose how to spend your free time in the largest cities of Russia and Ukraine. These are complete schedules of movies, concerts, clubs, exhibitions and theaters; addresses, phone numbers, photographs and maps for restaurants, cinemas, museums, galleries, theaters and exhibition halls; Reviews of reviewers and users of the “Poster” on movies, performances, exhibitions and restaurants. In addition, the application automatically detects the location and finds entertainment nearby.
“The first version of
the Afisha application was released in September 2009 and during this time more than 260,000 users of Apple mobile devices installed it,” says Elena Kuznetsova, director of thematic projects Afisha and Rambler. - We initially conceived the Poster application as a quick and convenient way to get information about places and events “on the go”. We concentrated on solving this particular problem and made an application in which there is nothing superfluous and everything is necessary. Analyzing reviews, recommendations and wishes of our users, we identified several of the most important additions that were implemented in the new version. ”
The updated application uses the capabilities of new iOS firmware: multitasking, remembering the latest state of the application, dynamic Google maps, Retina support, authorization via Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte, etc. In addition, the application has several important features:
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- Quick access to frequently visited or liked places through the "Favorites" section;
- The function “I will go”, which allows you to see which events you are going to go to, as well as showing where your friends are going to go;
- Ability to evaluate the places and events that you have visited;
- Ability to see recommendations "Posters" and friends from social networks when choosing events;
- Completely redesigned search: now it works contextually on every page;
- Support for the Ukrainian cities of Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov, which the Afisha website has been supporting since March 2011.
We will not hide, advertising appeared in the new version of the application. This is a necessary measure that will allow Afisha to further increase the speed of development of the application. At the same time, we tried to ensure that advertising was built into the application as environmentally friendly as possible.
Recall also that in July came the application "Posters" for Android, immediately won first place in the category "Entertainment" in the Android Market.