New App Features For Windows Phone
News Release: Friend Feeds, Music Playlists and Live Tiles Now on the App for Windows Phone
Endomondo Sports Tracker turns the mobile phone into a full-fledged personal trainer and a social fitness partner. By leveraging Live Tiles and other features in Windows Phone 7.5, the latest version of Endomondo Sports Tracker gives fitness enthusiasts even more options for interactive, social workouts that are key to getting and staying active.
To create this updated version of Endomondo Sports Tracker, Endomondo doubled its Windows Phone development staff. In addition to existing features, such as audio performance feedback, a highly intuitive user interface, calorie tracking, route maps and the ability to have friends send pep talks in real-time, the latest version of the app, optimized for Windows Phone 7.5, now features:
- Live Tiles that provide instant, convenient access to workout histories and News Feed updates from friends who use Endomondo Sports Tracker.
- A Newsfeed with the latest workouts and activities by friends and ability to comment on each of them.
- User-created music playlists for each workout to provide additional motivation and keep each activity fresh.
- The ability to share selected workouts on Facebook or set up auto-sharing of all workouts.
“Live Tiles are one of the many features that make Windows Phone an ideal platform for making exercise more fun, motivating and social,” said Mette Lykke, Endomondo co-founder. “We offer users two different Live Tiles. One will show the latest workouts done by your friends and it’s a great way to stay updated on your friends’ most recent activities without having to enter the app. The other will show your own latest workout as well as your total history for the current month. That works as a nice reminder on your home screen to get out and free some endorphins.”
“Windows Phone is backed by a rich developer ecosystem that is creating a variety of quality apps and games like Endomondo,” said Todd Brix, senior director, Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft Corp. “With its use of Live Tiles, ability to share workouts on Facebook and share user created playlists for motivation, Endomondo takes full advantage of Windows Phone’s unique features and design and is a great example of the kind of rich applications that people will find on Windows Phone Marketplace,” he continued.
Endomondo Sports Tracker also is available for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and other devices. Endomondo’s cross-platform design makes it easy for users to turn workouts into a social activity, providing the additional motivation, interactivity and fun that are key for maintaining an active lifestyle.
About Endomondo:
Founded in 2007 by team of fitness fanatics, Endomondo turns mobile devices into full-fledged personal trainers and connects users to a vibrant social fitness network where people can support, motivate and challenge each other and share results. The Endomondo Sports Tracker mobile app, which utilizes GPS technology, records a full history of workouts and can be used for any distance-based sport. Additionally, the Endomondo.com website provides users with a personal portal — incorporating performance tracking tools, an extensive atlas of exercise routes around the world, connection to the Endomondo community, and more. Available on seven mobile platforms (iOS, Android, RIM, Windows Phone, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Java), Endomondo operates on almost all GPS phones. For more information, please visit http://www.endomondo.com and follow @Endomondo on Twitter.
Media Contacts:
Jackie Lapin, for Endomondo
(818) 707-1473
Mette Lykke, Co-founder of Endomondo
(415) 335-2623
Hello!
The endomondo update for Windows Phone was astonishing but…and there is always a “but”, how can users delete a workout from history?
Greetings from Portugal :)
Hi Tiago, greetings from San Francisco :)
Thanks for your feedback, we unfortunately don’t have that option on the Windows Phone update just yet. We’re working on it and it’s coming soon!
If you talk on the phone, or need to type a text, Endomondo keeps running, and the timer keeps counting up – but the gps does not update during the period when endomondo is not in focus.
Hi, I’m not an expert in this app but I am a Windows Phone developer. The problem is that WP7 doesn’t fully support ‘real’ multitasking yet. When you switch between apps (answering a call etc..), the phone actually shuts Endomondo down. This includes terminating the GPS capture for that app as well. When you switch back to Endomondo, the app is restored to make it look like it’s been running all along but in fact it hasn’t. As such, the GPS capture data will have a gap in it corresponding to the time you navigated away from the app.
Hi,
Could you please give a tutorial about to create a playlist on wp7? I tried justo to play the music button, but it plays only one music.
Thanks,
Djalmir, from Brasil.
Endomondo user on android for awhile now. Just picked up a Nokia Lumia 900. I am also an owner of a Zephyr HXM heart rate monitor, which I was using with the android version. Any chance of getting heart rate monitor support in a future version on windows phone?
Hi,
Thanks for the Windows Phone7 upgrades. Would much appreciate if it supports a heart rate monitor. Many thanks.
After looking into the Windows Phone SDK, looks like it is currently impossible for Endomondo to provide support for a heart rate monitor, as WP7 has very poor and basic bluetooth stack. There is no support for SPP, Serial Port Profile, which is required to communicate with the heart rate monitor. Theres potential Nokia may be putting pressure on Microsoft to enhance its bluetooth stack, but its likely the earliest this will be included on any Windows Phone is when Windows Phone 8 Apollo launches, and thats still pretty far away.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the information. But, I had encountered on “runtastic’s” HRM support for Windows Phone. I am not sure how it is supported but it seems they do support it.
-Thank you.
Just switched from Runkeeper who has dropped the development of their WP7 app and I’m looking forward to test Endomondo! Thanks for improving your app on WP7 !
Anyone seeing the live tile feature mentioned? I’m not – have latest install (v6.1).
Great app, hope next update adds sound config separately from the wp7 phone volume.
I hope you will improve the app for WP7 to the level of those iPhone users :) I cannot import my “routes” to the app :/
Hello, how about EndomondoPro for WP7 including interval training etc?
very good on windows phone but still impossible to create a road book and record it on the phone. lt’s only possible on blackberry.
Perfect app! Thx a lot!
Hi,
I have decided to buy Nokia Lumia 610. Can someone tell if Endomondo works on this phone. I will not go for this phone if Endomondo is not compliant with it. Support appreciated. Thanks.
Any plans for Endomondo Pro for WP7/WP8?
Guy, I’d like to know the answer to this as well! In the meantime, I’m at least thrilled about coming across Endomondo, and so happy it’s on my Windows Phone! …but yes, Pro would be even better!!
Any word on when this app will get some iPhone/Android parity? Intervals would be very nice to have.
Hi, will Endomondo for Windows Phone include an “offline mode” in the future, so that it doesn’t upload your workouts while you exercise, but after you complete the workout you click on Upload like on the Symbian version. The reason is that Endomondo is draining the battery very quickly as it keeps the 3G/3.5G data connection active during the workout.
Hello Endomondo :)
I hope there will be a pro version of the WP7/8 app. Are you working on that or is it idle? Give us some feedback plz, there are new apps coming to the windows phone platform that are better than the endo app right now…
When is the interval part from android being incoporated on windows phone?
Hello, thx for the awesome app, I’ve been using it on Android for a long time. Now I have WP8 phone but for some reason I cannot connect my Polar bluetooth heart rate belt to the app. Is this functionality coming to the WP8 version as well?
Hi, we have no immediate plans for that, sorry.
It would be great, it would works with Bluetooth, why everything for iPhone or android?? Not cool!!!!
Seems that users of WP7.5 have been left out of all updates and cool stuff found in other OS. Sad.
My question answered….. Goodbye endomondo :-(
No heart rate support for Windows Phone 8? bye bye Endomondo, I am getting fat… ;(
Hello Endomondo!
I’m testing Endomondo now on my Nokia Lumia 920; I come from the iPhone where I used Cyclemeter. I do like the online and Windows 8 app of Endomondo a lot, but would appreciate an improved app on Windows Phone. E.g. viewing all workouts instead of the one recorded on the Phone, viewing the route map etc. Can we expect anything on short term on the Windows Phone platform? Thanks!
I just got my new Nokia Lumia 820 and wanted to use heart rate monitor (like I use for Android, there I bought a Premium App) Really sad, you don’t implement it in WP8 App. If this will never come to endomondo I will change to an other App. Really sad, cause I like Endomondo very much and I was thinking to buy the Premium Account for the Website, to use hearrate-zones.
(runtastic is able for this, really sad)