TripIt Flexes Android’s Muscles

Written on May 10, 2011 at 12:11 pm, by Hootan Mahallati

By Hootan Mahallati, Mobile Product Manager for TripIt

Here at TripIt, we're always keen to take advantage of the unique features that different mobile platforms offer users. Fresh on the heels of releasing our first iPad app, which leverages the larger screen size, we are excited to announce one of the more significant TripIt for Android releases in a while – version 1.6 – which in turn takes advantage of Android's strengths.

With TripIt for Android v1.6, you will have a choice of installing two widgets on your home screen, allowing you to stay updated on the current plan in your itinerary with just a glance. Just press and hold your screen, choose widgets, and look for TripIt.

Signing in to the app is much more streamlined now. You will no longer have to sign in through a browser and in addition, a scroll-down menu will store all the email addresses stored on your device with which to sign in. Less typing is always a good thing.

The app itself is much more powerful now, offering you the capability to add, edit or delete trips and plans, a feature that had been available in our iPhone app for a few months.

Once in the app, you will have a second way to interact with the app. As an alternative to tapping the menu button, you can press and hold the screen to expose the action menu.

We hope that Android users will love the latest version of the TripIt Android app. Let us know what you think and as always, stay tuned for more good news soon. TripIt for Android v1.6 is available here.

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I use to import my tripit calendar in thunderbird but is stopped working at all a while ago. Tripit does not seem to have changed (it still imports OK in my Google Calendar and on my Iphone), so I suspect a recent upgrade or TB or Lightning could be the cause. Can anyone help ? Thanks

Paul Levold

(Posted this in my review at the Android Market as well, don't know what you read the most) The widget is really cool, but I'm missing some features that I think is important to include: - If the current and the next entry is a transportation entry, the widget should show the layover time between the two entries. Like the WorldMate widget does. - If there is seating information in the transportation entry, this should always be shown in the widget (I add it to TripIt because I want it easily accessible!). -I also find it a bit annoying that for flight codes it shows the airline name and not code. I think it would be better if the widget said e.g. BA123 instead of British Airways 123. Thanks for a great service!

Nikonlensman

The app is repeatedly crashing on my Desire running Android 2.2. It was working fine until a couple of weeks ago. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app & it works fine for 2-3 days. Then I get a message saying it needs to force close (probably when it is trying to sync data) and just stops working. The app doesnt launch after this. Another uninstall and reinstall. This is frustrating!

Sofiane Hocine

A small bug/issue: If I click on "Need help signin in?", I can't get back to sign in screen. Even if I kill the app. I have to reboot my phone to get things working again.

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I have been playing with the TripIt API yesterday. TripIt provides typical RESTful services to access your travel data. Like other Web APIs, they use OAuth (Open Authorization) to allow third-party applications to access your protected TripIt data without requiring you to enter your TripIt credentials in the third-party app. The authorization workflow goes like this: 1. Get a Request Token. The third-party application invokes a TripIt service that returns a “Request Token”. At this point the token is “unauthorized”. 2. Authorize the token. The third-party application opens a browser window (navigateToURL) with a specific TripIt page where you can authenticate and grant access to the third-party application (aka authorize the token). 3. Obtain an Access Token. The third-party application invokes a TripIt service that returns an authorized “Access Token”. 4. Access protected resources. The key point is that you never provide your TripIt credentials to the third-party application. Since it required a little bit of work to implement this in ActionScript, I figured I would share my example. The good news is that I didn’t have to create my own OAuth client implementation in ActionScript. I found the oauth-as3 library on Google Code (Kudos to Shannon Hicks). Even though this is a TripIt example, you should be able to use it as a reference for integrating with other services using OAuth.

jesus leyva

also agree.. great app. but I am also not seeing widgets.

As an HP employee, we just found out that we are all being asked to move to the Palm phone. I sure hope TripIt is looking to create an app for the Palm platform as well.

Joe

Great app. Love it. However I do not see qny widget on my Motorola Atrix (Android 2.2.2).

Alaina

I've updated to TripIt 1.6 but when I long-click on my home screen it doesn't give me an option for a TripIt widget anywhere. Please help!!

Dustin

Great app, but some TripIt Pro features (like alternate flight) still don't work. I was also able to use the widgets on the Motorola Atrix a few days ago, but they seem to have disappeared and I can't add them again.

Vincent

I love it ! Thanks guys !! But no widget on my HTC Desire... :'(

Kaum

would still love to see a symbian release...

Love the Tripit app, but I cannot find the widgets on my Motorola Atrix

Sally

We love the android application.. beats using a netbook to access Trip It... everything is much more accessable. Highly recommended for mobile people.

Robert Clayton Williams

Wow! TripIt is a great app for Android phone. Seemless interaction. Saved me from having to carry all confirmation numbers, maps, times for meeting, etc... Used to have one big spreadsheet for all travels. Now I use TripIt!!!

Billpresson

I've liked TripIt and love TripIt Pro. And this update just makes it even better!

Asten

This looks like a great update, and kudos for adding the Android specific features!

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