Android Now Plays Foursquare Too

Foursquare has been all the rage in the early adopter mobile space the past several months . And it has been peeking outside of the early adopter crowd with things such as local bars offering promotions for Foursquare usage. But it has still been held back a bit by the fact that it has only had an iPhone app and a somewhat clunky mobile web interface. And Foursquare understood that, so it called for developers to help build its app for the other mobile platforms. Today, the first of those is ready to go: Foursquare for Android . Work on the project started back in April and was mainly coded by Joe LaPenna and Chris Bummel in their spare time. It started as a project to first reverse engineer the iPhone API, and then migrate to Android using Foursquare's beta API, LaPenna tells us. After a few months of work, the duo and Foursquare's Naveen Selvadurai (who has been managing it from the service's side) feels its now feature-complete and ready for distribution. TechCrunch50 Conference 2009 : September 14-15, 2009, San Francisco