Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (15:00) | Bart Breij
The NS planner Xtra as you know it is not soon. In the upcoming 3.0 version of the official NS application is everything else. The application will be released for iPhone and iPad. The appearance is updated for iOS 7, but the layout is going to be changed. There will be a number of new functions, but other functions disappear just as easy. iCulture throws an exclusive early look at the upcoming NS planner Xtra 3.0.
The color of the trains on the Dutch railway network drive, sings a tone lower in the new app. The colors yellow and blue are not gone from the app, but they are no longer the main colors. The new application has yellow navigation bars and blue text, but is mostly white. Both pages as the sliding menu using the color is so popular since iOS 7. Slimmer than before letters emphasize that the design around Apple’s system software is designed.
planner: other transport and more options
One page in NS planner Xtra 3.0 for iPhone and iPad However, mid-blue color. It is the main page. The top menu and the one for which you are most likely will start the app, the planner itself. Since you can now instantly the time of departure or arrival, changing it without having go to a new page. A tap on the time or date immediately evokes a pop-up where you change it.
But it’s not the biggest change. As a departure and arrival point you are no longer limited to stations, but can also address (city, street name “) or postcode. Do you do that, you will get the option to display the option at both the destination and starting point or go on foot, by bike or car. In the travel advisory which parts are shown in green. The planner are finally more options under More Options. Through which drive you want to travel? Can a high-speed train on your route are, you want the best, the fastest travel or have the slightest change? You can even select a transfer time of 5 to 20 minutes, for a bite in between. And last, you can indicate whether you have a card, on which prices are adjusted. Stay happy all the options in the app are as you entered them. Last
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Train ride
overview of travel options you can see the start and end times, including the time that you need for any other transport. You see what connections you have, the total travel time and the crowds prediction of 1 to 3 males. Press through a journey and you can still switch between alternatives with arrows at the top picture. The route is clearly marked with the switching platforms and the time you have to make the switch. Below you see the price of a trip – always one way – and under that adorns the new map showing the route is shown. We find no other indications for other types of transportation than the train. Under the More button, you will see not only the option to save the second page of the app, but the trip also “Show more information. A look into the kitchen you see what the fuss is average and even punctuality rate of trains
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Killed
The implementation of a map you can see, the process was one of the main points of the new NS planner Xtra. This allows mobile developer Piet Middelkoop of NS to know iCulture. He also tells what functions were killed:
Based on customer feedback, we have appointed a top three priorities. 1 tablet version for iOS and Android. Was 2 a trail map. With the third option, we are still working. There are two things taken out of the app: Er on-off section and TomTom Places. First is an alternative will be mobile. Instead of TomTom, we now use the Google-line on the map.
It seems, therefore, that NS has skimped. especially in the finery We get the same impression as we enter the new app to use the function stations, with information on the stations. The page is neatly at the bottom of the main menu and in finish clearly not the main part of the app. The ticket top image shows random street show that not to do with the station and the map skips weird in size depending on which tab you choose.
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An innovation that is not mentioned by Middelkoop, explicitly, we soon find most useful in the version we tested. In My Travel tab you can find not only saved trips and favorite stations, but now you’ll find favorite routes and locations. You carry a lot of used paths and can immediately see the next, departing trains next time. Swipe sufficient for your next opportunity to see and press takes you to the extended trip list.
The new feature seems to be a response to the way apps like alternative train express train, Rail Planner and Train – 100% fastest introduced new ways to find out your correct train as soon as possible. The latter does it with a list of the five following destinations from your favorite stations at breakneck enter your favorite destinations in the app and shows how to get there as quickly as possible from your current location. NS ‘ability to save your favorite routes is just as convenient. From the start of the app, you see already from two express train which you should have and on which platform that state. Fault? The dot straight red. A pressure further, you see what’s wrong.
NS planner Xtra iPad
iPad NS planner Xtra same classification as the iPhone. Only here the sliding menu planner, my travels, Departures, jams, work, news and other information is correct the only menu that remains. Regardless of whether you iPad landscape or portrait use. The other menus slide similar to the regional broadcasters apps for iPad. Press a page which appears as a strip in the picture. Press a route or station such as a page at a station and another strip of information (in this case your route mapped out and a summary of the station shops) in the image.
sweep you slide strips close or further. In the background is almost always made room for the card, which the iPhone does not have too big role. Just like on the iPhone feels NS planner Xtra iPad Of course, the app is fast and clear.
raises back into their own hands?
Although NS planner Xtra third prize won in our category Travel Apps of iCulture Awards 2013, the NS recent times many reasons given for the development of alternative train apps that last year saw the light on the iPhone. That express train, Rail Planner and Train – 100% fastest foothold got in the App Store, you can easily attribute to the fact that the simpler apps did. In less properly train prints to see. In version 3.0 NS planner Xtra strikes back. The application still provides the additional information that competitors lack, such as the fare meter and bustle. But it is the new favorite routes option that makes the trim. In a survey to see what your next connection and whether it runs trouble-free, may be the biggest gain in the new NS planner Xtra.
NS planner Xtra appear on January 16 for iPhone and iPad.
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