Gowalla's Android app is in beta, uses Skyhook for accurate geolocation

Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0, Android

A big part of getting a location-based app right is -- shocker! -- providing an accurate location.

Gowalla is using that principle to get a leg up in its battle with Foursquare for location-based check-in supremacy. Gowalla now uses Skyhook in its Android app, which means it's providing some of the best location data around.

The Android app is currently in beta, although it's not highly publicized. You can read about it and download it from Gowalla's Get Satisfaction page.

The Gowalla iPhone app was already Skyhook-enabled, and the developers noticed that it was a lot better at pinpointing locations than its Android counterpart.

Fortunately, there's a Skyhook SDK that Android devs can use for their own location-aware apps. Foursquare hasn't added Skyhook to its Android app, as far as I know, but the third-party Mac desktop app FoursquareX uses Skyhook to find locations via wifi.

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