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A small thing, but nice. A separate “All About Moscow” collection appeared in the Russian App Store, and an app I wrote made it into it.

We’ve released a mobile AllCafe client for Android. Conformant to the guidelines, fragments and a few near-impossible things under the hood :-D Works on both phones and tablets.

AllCafe for iPhone 2.0 has been released.

What is new in version 2.0

• New restaurant info layout;
• viewing restaurant photos;
• new restaurant news layout;
• viewing photos attached to news items;
• new restaurant review layout;
• viewing photos in a review and all photos from all visitor reviews;
• restaurant magazines added;
• various fixes and additions.

Released a small AllCafe for iPhone update. The main changes are iPhone 3G support (i.e. support for the entire iOS 4 line) and image compression on the client side when adding reviews. Photos also get uploaded with the correct orientation now (portrait or landscape).

The pleasant surprise: the update was approved in just one day. Looks like reviewers are working at an accelerated pace right now — even iTunes Connect will be closed for the holidays from December 22 to December 29.

We’ve finally finished the first version of AllCafe for iPhone — one we can actually show off.

How many times have you walked into a place only to find there are no free seats — or just realised that today you don’t fancy this place after all? It happens to me a lot. And the first thought is: where else can we sit / eat / have a drink nearby?

Our portal AllCafe.ru has a fairly large database of restaurants across Russia. Plus user reviews about them. We made an iPhone app — which, by the way, weighs only about 200 KB. With it you can see nearby venues on a map, or as a list with the approximate distance.

For each venue you can see brief info — address, phone number (which you can of course dial straight from the app), what kind of cuisine it serves, read news about the venue, and — important — read reviews and decide whether to go.

You can also leave a review yourself. Sitting happily (or unhappily) in a restaurant — open the app and add a review.

That’s only what’s in the app right now. The list of planned features is pretty long and there’s plenty of work ahead.

This is, in fact, my first iOS app. Congrats to me.