Localway for Android - free personal tour guide in your pocket
Travels Android / / December 19, 2019
Walking around the city, especially a stranger, often I want to close walked personal tour guide. What is this historic building? a nearby park there? Where to go tonight? And where you can have a tasty lunch? For these (and other) questions will be answered Localway - Guide to Russian cities.
Localway - a new project from the creators of the search service and the purchase of air tickets and hotel reservations Anywayanyday.
This is also a search engine, but in the service sector. He will help you navigate in an unfamiliar city and get to know your own. Apart from the official site localway.ru, The service is available in the form of applications for iOS users as well as for fans of "green robot". And Localway for Android designed specifically for Lollipop - just comfortable and beautiful.
How it works
When you first start you will be asked to choose a place where you are or where planning to go. Now available guides in seven major cities of Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg (and vicinity), Kazan, Voronezh, Omsk, Chelyabinsk and Krasnoyarsk. Soon there will be information about Sochi, Adler, Krasnaya Polyana, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod.
It is useful Localway
- Local residents: you can find the nearest restaurant, gym or park and find out if, for example, in a particular mall cinema.
- Travelers: information about hotels, attractions and museums; you can read the description, learn how much it costs him a visit and see the location on the map.
- Lovers of outdoor activities: yacht clubs, skate parks, go-karting, paintball, and not only - to collect a large database of objects for people who prefer dynamic pastime. You can find entertainment for the soul and find out what people think about this place other extreme.
Navigation
One of the main Localway chips for Android - intuitive navigation.
Categories (swipe left open) sort objects according to functional accessories: hotels, restaurants, entertainment, shopping and so on. Tabs "The best around", "According to the remoteness" and "Best in town" (swipe right) help to choose the right thing for you. For example, if you want to have lunch, then you select the category "Restaurants" tab and the "Best in town." Appear on the screen eating places of the city with the highest rating. And selecting the category "Attractions" tab and the "best around", you will learn some historical and cultural sites are located at a distance of one and a half kilometers away from you.
The most important information - the rating, pricing and distance - is displayed to issue a card object. In other words, to understand the solution to your place or not, no need to open each.
If the subject interests you, click on it - displays more information: address, telephone number, picture, available services, reviews and more. Inside the card you can add the object to your favorites or express their opinion on it (red button with a plus sign).
Also on the card object displayed everything that is on its territory. For example, the opening of Gorky Park page, you can see all of it located in the facility: cafe, playgrounds, rentals and so on. And the card of the Assumption Cathedral is immediately obvious that he is part of a complex Kremlin Palace.
To see what is next to the desired subject, you need to click on the address in its description. Open the card, which will show the location of the and surrounding objects.
By the way, you can move the map and display objects of issue. For this Localway for Android made floating button: when scrolling top panel partially folded and the transition button on the map is reduced and slides down. Conveniently!
Search
Smart Search - another feature Localway Android-application. He just understands you perfectly.
For example, you write in the search bar (the icon in the upper right corner), the word "coffee" or "yoga". The system will give all the coffee shops or places to practice yoga in this city. And you use the tabs and filters will be able to decide where to drink flavored drink or meditate.
Localway understands even such requests in writing that the user forgets to switch from Latin to Cyrillic.
filters
Next to the search you will find filters. Five of them:
- category (see above);
- service (what service you can get);
- areas (which is in the desired location);
- Metro (which is located on one or another branch of the metro);
- time (which can be accessed in the specified time range).
Each card has a service object icons. Thanks to them, you can learn, for example, that the Moscow State Historical Museum is available for people with disabilities, is equipped with an audio guide, there are guided tours in Russian and foreign languages. The icons are clickable. Clicking on any of them, you'll see other objects that provide the same service.
Filters are available in the map view.
Localway - a free personal guide that is easy to carry in your pocket. With him not to get bored and lose, and the new material design made application really user-friendly.