If you have followed my blog, a couple of months ago I started to develop a Rightmove app for Android. I got to the stage where I felt I should seek permission to release the app using the data supplied from Rightmove before I continued. Unfortunately they refused.
Never mind..
A few week ago I started to look for a new data source that provides property data to be included in the application. I found that data from Google.
Over the past few days I’ve been working to get the application to a preview state where I feel it’s buggy stable enough to use. The application is now available to download via the Android Market.
Here are a couple of images showing the application in use.
And a promo image;
Future plans include social sharing via email, twitter etc from within the application and also launch a website that can assist with displaying the properties to non android users.
Download
Use a QR code scanner
Manually install from the Android Market
- Go to ‘Market’ on your Android-powered device.
- Select ‘Search’.
- Enter ‘UK Property Market’ into the search field.
- Once you’ve found the ‘UK Property Market’ app, touch to install.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to proceed with the installation.
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Downloaded, and it works great! Nice to see that you’ve got it out in the big bad world despite the idiots at Right Move.
Would love to see a “Saved Search” function, but it looks great and is intuitive to use. Top Work!
Seems to hang on “Obtaining location” when I put a search term in (e.g. ‘London Bridge’). Wifi is working fine and GPS is on…
If you scroll to the bottom you can select search properties.
The obtaining location/get location uses your phones GPS receiver to obtain your latitude and longitude. If you phone is unable to get a fix with the GPS satellites, the app will continue to try and get a fix until you cancel it by pressing the back button.