So long cumbersome paper maps! These days, to explore cities and to go sightseeing, everything fits inside an app. On top of their pocket-format, tourism mobile apps provide valuable information so that the user can plan his travel arrangements, places to visit, what to do in a particular place or situation, etc.

You may have already wondered about how to make an app, and thought it would be a hard process. However, with this guide you are just one step away from creating an app for the travel enthusiast, accessible across devices, using GoodBarber. 

Just one information before we get started, being a free spirit, my City Muse for the day will be Portland. But of course, you are free to apply all the tips you'll find here to any city, region or location.

Hello GoodBarbers!

Today we have some good news for our Catalan friends: the back office and apps are now available in Catalan!

We were already offering the option to set your back office and app in Spanish. However, many GoodBarbers have been asking for the possibility to create apps in Catalan as well. With that in mind, we are happy to announce the release of this new language option, allowing you to make the most of our interface and your beautiful apps.

In order to set the back office to Catalan, you simply have to go to Settings menu> My Account> Profile> Language (management).

In order to set the app in Catalan, you have to go to the menu Settings> App Options> Settings app> Application Language.

Fins ara GoodBarbers ;)

Today we have the great pleasure of presenting the evolution of an app, from the blog iosmac.es , called Blog iM; an app that has reinvented itself to offer new features to mobile enthusiasts. Antonio Exposito  discusses his three-year adventure with GoodBarber.

Millennials are a crucial target these days. Born between 1980-2000, they are a difficult target to reach, but once you have them hooked you’ve secured yourself an engaged crowd. Basically, often early adopters, they can make or break you.

In the mobile industry in particular, they are a target group: technology is an inherent part of their daily lives, day in and day out. But regardless, their attention is difficult to catch.

Reason n°1: they are overwhelmed by solicitation.

Reason n°2: they are demanding users, easily rushing from one thing to the next when they aren’t satisfied.

Mobile World Congress 2016 has been a very good edition for our team. It was the 4th participation of GoodBarber as an exhibitor, and the experience was full of intense pitches, demos, feedbacks and meetings.

Over the years, we get to see more and more friendly faces in the crowd and some of them have now become customers. It's always a good experience to meet with them in person. Having a chat with our customers is the most rewarding feeling and their feedback is valuable to keep on pushing ourselves to enhance GoodBarber. 

Mobile World Congress was also the perfect occasion to make contacts with other people in our industry and exchange ideas. This year, we organized a MeetUp to get together with our resellers, journalists, bloggers and anyone curious to have a chat in a more relaxed atmosphere about our product. We shared our big highlights for 2015 and gave a preview of what's in the pipe for 2016. It was amazing to discover the powerful use that some of the attendees are making of our product. It was very inspiring.

Sure MWC can be tiring at times, we probably drank too many cups of coffee for our own good, saw very little of Beautiful Barcelona, but, at the end of the day, we got the most energy from the people we met along the way! 

Hello GoodBarbers! 

It's still one of our favorite rendez-vous year after year, and so, we are pleased to say that we'll be attending Mobile World Congress  again this year, in Barcelona. As you already know, 2015 was an eventful year for us and we can't wait to share our new releases during this crucial and prestigious event.

Sara, Arianna, João , Dominique and Jérôme are taking off for Barcelona soon. They will stay there for 4 intense days, looking forward to meeting with passionate actors of the mobile market and exchanging ideas, as well as sharing the results of our team's hard work since the last MWC.

GoodBarber Open Product, Social Features, .. The list is long!

We'll be expecting you in Hall 8.1 - D41, in the France Pavilion, stand n°10. You can come by anytime during the 4 days of MWC, but you can also book a meeting with us, here !

Given the dimension and challenge that is such an event, we are hosting a special Meet Up  once more, on Wednesday February 24th, which will allow us to interact with you guys in a more relaxed atmosphere :)

Our Beautiful Team can't wait to be on the go,

See you in Barcelona!

Hello GoodBarbers,

Today we are introducing a very powerful update for one of the most important communication tools for your Beautiful App: push notifications. Our Scheduled Push Notifications Add-On has already got you covered when it comes to keeping your audience posted on your updates. But, as you already know, when it comes to push notifications, quality over quantity is key.

At GoodBarber, we value the quality of the user experience, which is what our developers had in mind when crafting our brand new feature: Push Settings.

Let’s see how this feature will make your life easier ;)

Hello GoodBarbers,

We are kickstarting 2016 with one of our technical team’s latest accomplishments. This January, let’s make your Beautiful App more… SOCIAL! We are indeed introducing a much-anticipated feature, bringing a lot of added value for your app: the Chat Add-On. After the many highlights of 2015 and notifications updates, with the Scheduled Push, Geofencing and iBeacons, this is definitely another big step forward!