Navigon determined to link with every app it can

Navigon continues to be very aggressive at making its navigation platform a continued top seller for the iPhone. Today, the company announced an open app interface called AppInteract, which is a simple script that embeds a link into any app to launch Navigon's MobileNavigator. At the same time, it transfers any selected address into turn-by-turn directions.

"For example, if you find a restaurant in an app that has implemented our AppInteract interface, you can get turn-by-turn directions to a chosen place instantly," said Gerhard Mayr, vice-president worldwide mobile phones and new markets for Navigon. "Our aim is to provide elegant and easy to use navigation solutions, for our customers, as well as to the developer community."

The technology has already been embedded in the Where To? app that I've reviewed previously. Now every developer who wants the technology can get easy access to it.

It's clear Navigon wants to become a hub for all the apps that look up addresses, and for good reason -- there are many of those in the App Store.

Looking back, it's amazing how far the iPhone has come in the last couple of years. I suspect there is a lot more around the corner, especially with iPhone 4.0 being released later this year.

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fixintu

I wish Navigon would improve on it's ability to correctly locate an address. AT&T Navigator does this correctly 99% of the time. Navigon seems to have problems with this and has since day one. I have been using both for over a year on the same 3GS device. It happens often enough to cause me to have to verify the address physical location in the Maps function on the iPhone. Navigon has far better features & graphics but too often cannot plot a course to the correct address. I have emailed them several times but have never gotten a response....EVER. Now I see they are coming out with 3D Panorama view. That's nice but if it cannot find my intended destination what good is it?

/rant off

February 11 2010 at 8:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

allen

http://www.google.com

February 11 2010 at 4:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jakob

How do implement it in my apps?
I can't find any implementation notes.

February 11 2010 at 1:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jakob

http://www.navigon.com/portal/common/faq/files/NAVIGON_AppInteract.pdf

February 11 2010 at 1:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SwissFreek

It's a shame that Apple forces the devs to come up with workarounds for things this, which in my opinion should be handled by the OS, like the way Android has "action_intent" handlers or whatever they call it, where you can tie third-party apps into the core OS's "share" buttons and the like. Would like to hope that 4.0 would come up with some system to do that, but then again, if it doesn't I'll be saying the same thing about 5.0 in a year and just waiting for Apple to do it. Or not.

February 10 2010 at 6:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pieter

Navigon is awesome.
I only wish the iPhone 3G was a bit faster when using it. Seems like it takes a bit of horsepower to run it.

When is 1.5 coming out, btw?

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