Mobile update 2GIS: outside and inside

The months of productive work have resulted in a whole bunch of improvements that simultaneously made our application both more attractive, sexy, and mimic in terms of appearance, and more functional.



And if specifically, here's what appeared in the new version:

• HD-quality graphics on high-resolution smartphones. At the same time on the devices of previous generations, the application looks the same quality. Both users of the newest 5-inch monsters and owners of modest old devices will be satisfied.

• New design, designed specifically for the latest versions of Android. 2GIS keeps up with the times and develops in accordance with Android Design !

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• A quick access menu appeared - now ATMs, gas stations, pharmacies and everything you might need along the way can be found with one touch. For those who have seen 2GIS for the iPhone, this feature is already familiar.

• Support for the built-in compass on Android devices in addition to the distance to organizations of interest will indicate the direction in which they are located. Now you can find the nearest cafe, and go, focusing not only on the map and the smell of food, but also on the arrow of the compass. However, be careful: look around and cross the streets only at a green traffic signal!
  But seriously, the real benefit of this feature is the ability to determine on the road what is on your way and what is behind your back.
  

• Rotating a 3D map with two fingers will allow you to see the city from the right angle and better orient in space. Finally, you can find out what these houses have from the back.

• Database files of cities decreased in size, while performance improved. As before, our application works offline, you only need to pre-load the base of the desired city. And now it can be done even faster.

• A search bar on the city selection screen will help you quickly find the desired city in the list. This is especially useful for residents of satellite cities, in order to understand which large city’s base they should load. After all, the cumulative number of large and small cities in 2GIS already exceeded 180!

And now some statistics. The popularity of the 2GIS mobile application is constantly growing. Today, 2GIS is installed on every fifth smartphone on the Android platform in Russia, and has been downloaded to Google Play (the former Android Market) more than 1.7 million times already. By the way, the five most popular smartphone models on which 2GIS is most often used look like this:

1. Samsung GT-I9100 Galaxy SII
2. Samsung GT-S5830 Galaxy Ace
3. HTC Desire S
4. HTC Wildfire S
5. HTC Incredible S

2GIS is in the TOP-5 best applications in the Travel category , winning the maximum number of stars (5 out of 5). According to users, “the description of the program is not exaggerating,” all that is indicated in it is “true truth: all fences and stalls, exact numbers of vehicles, all information about houses” are shown.

However, it was not done without a fly in the ointment - in the new version, the kinematics of the map may behave strangely, there are also some problems with the processing of touch events. But we are already preparing an update with corrections, and soon it will be available on Google Play.

Recall that the mobile version of 2GIS for Android was released in March 2011, for the first two weeks, becoming the leader in the number of downloads among the best free programs in the Travel category. Simultaneously, 2GIS applications for smartphones on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms appeared, and in December 2011, 2GIS for iOS was released.

The total number of downloads of the mobile version of 2GIS for all platforms exceeded 3.7 million.