Digipea your favorite places is now available as privileged open web app for FirefoxOS devices on the Firefox Marketplace!

From the very beginning we opted to develop the Digipea your favorite places mobile app using open web technologies as HTML5, CSS, Javascript and open source frameworks as Google Web Toolkit and Apache Cordova (aka Phonegap), thinking that this is the most efficent way to manage mobile cross-platform development and maybe the only one available for small sized, self-financed tech startup as we are.

With this release, having Digipea your favorite places mobile app available on 3 different platforms (iOS, Android and FirefoxOS) and using the same code-base with the same technologies, we can confirm we have mastered the cross-platform development on mobile.

If you are interested in mobile cross-platform open web apps and want to know more about the technical implementations we used on Digipea, please feel free to contact us by commenting here, writing an email to info@digipea.com or by contacting us on facebook, google+, twitter and linkedin.

Thank you for using Digipea your favorite places!

The Digipea 1.2 version is online for iOS, Android and web. With this update we have added a lot of new features and solved many issues on the system. Please update the app as soon as possible: 1.1 version support will be closed anytime soon.

If you have any questions about the product, want to know more about us, giving us hints on which features you would like to be included, or having problems with the app, please contact us on ours facebook and google+ pages, by twitter and linkedin or by sending us an email at support@digipea.com. Please keep on sending us your feedbacks: we need your help to build a better application.

What’s new on Digipea 1.2
Improved layout
Digipea 1.2 comes with full built-in support for latest iOS and Android versions (iOS 8 and Android Kitkat) and is backward compatible with older versions as iOS 6 and Android Gingerbread 2.3.3.
Also we improved the application layout for a best fit also on larger screen smartphones, on phablets and on tablets as for example iPhone 6 and 6+, iPad, Nexus 5, 7 and 10, Samsung Galaxy Note, Amazon Fire Phone, Amazon Kindle and so on.

Search for places around
Search for nearby places feature is now available. You can filter search results:

• by source (your places or others on google places),
• by place category (eat & drink, view, etc.)
• by position (your current location or a specified address).

Search results will be showed on a map as interactive markers that will allow you to instantly display basic information about the place they refer to and activate the related options: see place full details, like-in or edit the place, call place.

Get directions to places
It is now possible to get directions to places: select a place on your organiser, open options on upper-right corner and select “directions”. This will automatically open your OS default navigation system with the best path from your current position to the destination place.

Share places
Privacy matter! We built Digipea to be private: the places you add are private by default and will only be shared with friends you choose on Digipea.
Anyway, we know, sometimes friends that aren’t yet on Digipea are asking you for recommendations about places and sometimes you just want to share that interesting place to the outside world…

Digipea 1.2 will allow you to selectively share single places to external social networks as:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Whatsapp

Adding places is now simpler and faster
We worked hard to improve the usability in adding new places. With Digipea 1.2, you have now 4 ways for adding new places, and add process is faster and simpler than ever.

• Add places on the go: set the place name and save. Location is retrieved with GPS.
• Add places by address: set the place name and an address. Location is retrieved by geocoding the address.
• Add place by like-in one of your friend places: open your friend’s place and select the like-in option. Your notes and recommendations about the selected place will be added to your organiser.
• Add place by like-in on one of the places around: a copy of the selected place, with your own comment, will be added to your organiser.

Please feel free to leave a comment about the new Digipea version. We really would like to know what you think about it!

Do you already have a Firefox OS phone? Are you planning to buy one? We are testing the Digipea your favourite places port to Firefox OS and… it runs great!

Coming soon.

Thank you for installing Digipea, your favourite places organiser!

An application update (version 1.0.1) is now available for iPhone, Android and web. With this update we have addressed few issues on the system and have added some minor improvements on the user interface and application performances.

Major fixes details:
- problem on adding places in Hong Kong, Macao and San Marino has been solved.
- problem on removing your places has been solved.
- problems on editing places (lost comments on edit and “you have already added this place” error message on save) has been solved.

We are now starting to develop new features that we hope will improve your experience using Digipea.

If you have any questions about the project, want to know more about us, giving us hints on which features you would like to be included in the next version or reporting errors please comment here or contact us by our facebook page, by twitter and linkedin or by sending us an email at support[at]digipea.com.

Please keep on sending us your feedbacks: we need your help to build a better application.

The first public release of Digipea, your favourite places organiser is now available! You can register and access by web at www.digipea.com or download and install the mobile application for iPhone and Android.

If you were already using Digipea beta version for iPhone or Android we highly recommend to uninstall the previous version before proceeding with the installation.

We are really happy to have achieved this target, especially considering that Digipea is a totally self-financed company and a fully in-house developed project, built by two people willing to create something useful.

A special thanks goes to everyone who helped us along the way, patiently trying the intial beta versions, helping us to resolve issues on the system and improve the quality of the product. Really thanks also to CEIN and his EIBT programme (Empresas Innovadoras de Base Tecnológica), that allowed us to build the foundations of the project.

It is also thanks to your support that we have been able to create a product from scratch making it available worldwide.

If you like the application and you find it an useful tool, please help us to spread Digipea by inviting your friends and writing positive reviews on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

You can keep following our news by reading our blog, liking our facebook page or following us on twitter and linkedin.

We are ready for the first Digipea public release, but still waiting for last legal details to be fixed before submitting the Digipea mobile application to the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Meanwhile you can find Digipea mobile application preview here. As you will notice, iPhone and Android applications custom design and behavior are perfectly identical. That is Continue reading →

Digipea, your favourite place organiser

Founded in 2011 by Enrico Bertelletti @ebertelletti and Gianpaolo De Biase, Digipea is a technology startup company with headquarters in Pamplona, Spain.

Initial idea

Observing the evolution of mobile technology towards the development of smartphone devices and considering the focus on the web social networks in the last few years, it was clear to us that Continue reading →