I like Foursquare and I was glad it was implemented into our favorite Symbian app, Gravity. My favorite addition in latest build 6358, adds silent check-ins which I like to do when I don’t want to share certain check-ins. The update also includes bug fixes and changes in GPS handling. Janole, the developer of Gravity, kindly provided a changelog for our readers, so check it out for more details.

Foursquare via Gravity on Nokia N86 and Nokia N97 mini

Download

• Symbian^1 Devices (Nokia N97, N97 mini, 5800, etc.): http://bit.ly/6358ALL
• Symbian S60v3 FP2 (E72, E52, N86, etc.): http://bit.ly/6358FP2x

Changelog

Here are the changes for this build that Jan provided when I emailed him:

Hi Mark,

Here’s what I can remember right now:

- Foursquare: Silent Checkin (off-the-grid), Badges, History, showing Mayor indicators. Fixed: cache could have been growing rapidly – it should now limit the Foursquare cache to the last 50 or so friends.

- Accounts overview now clearly shows the account type. The account type will be inverse or highlighted if there’s anything new in the account (tweet, reply, …)

- GPS: hopefully fixed the use of the internal GPS module now. Gravity requests a network location (cellid) and a GPS (or A-GPS) location at the same time. Before it was a sequential process that apparently didn’t work on some phones.

- GPS: Tools->GPS to Clipboard will not just fetch the WLAN saved/cached location but always try to fetch the real GPS coordinate from the internal GPS (if available) and then afterwards save that real GPS position for all nearby WLANs (for future quick lookup.)

- A very, very alpha-ish support for Sina Weibo (t.sina.com.cn) – a microblog from China. It’s only available for Chinese users atm – and probably not working so well yet.

- API usage is only shown when running low and it’s then showing in the dashboard

- Fixed the search section for S60v5 – when there’s no search and only the trends and you add a search, the screen wouldn’t be resizing.

- Progress bar and error messages should only show up for the currently selected account (no more showing of timeout error for background updates of the accounts.)

- In theory, a new version of Gravity in the Info & Updates section should show up as an envelope sign like with direct messages. The info & updates section should show the real date & time for the beta & release versions now instead of all saying “x min ago.” It should also show when you’ve registered your phone

- Something nobody has found yet!? You can upload your Twitter user profile image from the image section now

- Fixed the Twitter user profile / data handling: you should see the correct number of tweets and followers and so forth now. No more jumping back and forth of those numbers.

- Fixed a bug with fetching your friends

- Fixed parsing the official retweets (hopefully)

- Fixed the JSON parser for JSON with whitespace (hopefully)

- Official retweets of official retweets will retweet the original tweet not the retweet. (Oh, that’s complicated!)

There must be more – although I’ve only had like 6 days to work on this during the last two weeks

Heh – was actually fun to write this “changelog.” I should ask for a more professional workflow in this company!

Cheers,
Ole