Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.
Hi guys! Our team of HN lurkers been hard at work for what feels like an eternity now and today we're proud to present our first public product: The Walkbase library for Android. You can get it at www.walkbase.com With Walkbase, app developers can push location-specific room-level context (e.g. in-game content, coupons, mobile ads) to various smartphone apps. The idea is to give you a logical context (e.g Starbucks, SOMA) rather than an approximate GPS position for your users and we hope devs will be able to build a bunch of cool stuff on top of this. We hope you like it and find it useful.…
Walkbase, room-level context for your apps. launched on October 19, 2011 with 11 votes, #65 of 292 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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Walkbase is an Android library that enables app developers to deliver location-specific content to users at the room or venue level, rather than relying on GPS coordinates. The library allows developers to push in-game content, coupons, and mobile ads triggered by precise indoor locations like specific coffee shops or neighborhoods. It targets mobile app developers looking to create location-aware applications with logical venue context instead of approximate positioning data.
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Hi guys! Our team of HN lurkers been hard at work for what feels like an eternity now and today we're proud to present our first public product: The Walkbase library for Android. You can get it at www.walkbase.com With Walkbase, app developers can push location-specific room-level context (e.g. in-game content…
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