{"id":48908,"date":"2013-08-29T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T20:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=48908"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:46","slug":"foursquare-on-android-updates-with-proactive-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/foursquare-on-android-updates-with-proactive-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Foursquare on Android updates with &#8216;proactive&#8217; recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foursquare is a popular app for users with friends who are constantly trying to one-up each other on check-ins and new discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Foursquare, the app has &#8220;two main interactions: one between you and your friends, and another between Foursquare and you.&#8221; After spending time collecting and analyzing data between the interactions of users, the company is rolling out &#8220;proactive&#8221; recommendations to <a title=\"Foursquare for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/foursquare.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48911\" title=\"foursquare\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/gif.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/gif.gif 512w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/08\/gif-256x225.gif 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using &#8220;over 4 billion check-ins&#8221; to improve location accuracy, the app will give recommendations through the use of background location data. Foursquare claims the internal tests on phones resulted in a drain of &#8220;about 0.7% per hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The feature can be used to suggest different things like menu items at a restaurant or if in a new city, Foursquare will suggest places that friends have visited.<\/p>\n<p>The staggered roll out is to thousands of Android users now and a complete update for all Android users in &#8220;coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Foursquare on iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/foursquare.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> users will receive the update after the Android roll out, but Foursquare may be waiting for the launch of iOS 7 before committing to release the app.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"A smarter Foursquare, so you don\u2019t miss a thing.\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.foursquare.com\/2013\/08\/29\/a-smarter-foursquare-so-you-dont-miss-a-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foursquare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foursquare is a popular app for users with friends who are constantly trying to one-up each other on check-ins and new discoveries. According to Foursquare, the app has &#8220;two main interactions: one between you and your friends, and another between Foursquare and you.&#8221; After spending time collecting and analyzing data between the interactions of users, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/foursquare-on-android-updates-with-proactive-recommendations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foursquare on Android updates with &#8216;proactive&#8217; recommendations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-48908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332329,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48908\/revisions\/332329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48908"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=48908"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=48908"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=48908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}