It’s your lucky day, beloved RunKeeper users, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re on iPhone or Android. We’ve got a brand new RunKeeper 3.3 release live today for all! Both apps come with brand new support for the Pebble smart watch, which rocked Kickstarter last year. We know many of you have been eager for the watch to be able to display your RunKeeper stats while on the go, so we’re excited to get this in your hands.

And take a look below for the more new features specific to each operating system. There are lots of goodies in there!

Android

Weight & indoor activity entry
We’ve made it much easier and simpler to enter non-GPS workouts or your weight, right into the app. (So those treadmill runs can count towards your goals!) There’s even a visualization of how your weight is progressing over time.

Widgets
Starting and stopping a RunKeeper activity is easier than ever with new home screen and lock screen widgets. No need to fire up the full app to access the buttons you use the most.

iPhone

We recently announced that we’re taking a big step forward in making RunKeeper even more accessible for our passionate user base around the world.

And now, our iPhone app is available in six new languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese. We’re excited to bring all that good fitness guidance and motivation to more and more people around the globe! If your native language isn’t on this initial list, let us know in the comments! We’re only getting started! This 3.3. app update also ensures that the features we added in our last release are running nice and smoothly.

Be sure to download the new updates and get moving. And do let us know what you think. 

Oh and check out the video below for a closer look at how RunKeeper and Pebble work together. (You can pre-order the watch here)

As we ramp up for the next Android app update, we’d love your help testing the beta build we have ready. This 3.3 release includes some really cool updates like: 

• A new start-screen and lock-screen* widget that allow you to easily start, stop, and pause your run without having to open up the app. Pretty convenient, huh?
• We’ve also made it easier for you to enter non GPS-activities, and your weight. There’s also a visualization to show how your weight is changing over time. 
• Those of you with the Pebble smart watch can now test out how RunKeeper works with it.  Be sure connect your phone to the watch using bluetooth. 

We’d love for to give this all a whirl and let us know how it works. As usual, please provide us as much information as you can (via the comments section below) about any bugs you’re seeing, and the steps you take to reproduce it. If you are a developer, feel free to use developer tools to generate bug reports and send them over to us at support@runkeeper.com.

Now for the fun part! To install the beta:

1) Go to application settings and allow installation from unknown sources

2) Click the button below from your Android browser to get the new APK.

*Please note, that the Lock Screen widget will only work for phones on Android 4.2 or later.

There are more than 17 million RunKeeper users now in more than 200 countries all over the world!  This is amazing, especially considering that we are just a small team in Boston, MA USA and until now, our app has only been in English.

We’re thrilled to finally be changing that—RunKeeper is now available in six additional languages—Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

We’re always looking to become a better personal trainer in your pocket, and we are thrilled to start to enable this capability in more of our users’ native languages!  

These changes are live on Android now, and the iPhone version is coming very soon.

The Android 3.2 update also includes:

• Enhanced displays on your goal progress after each completed workout
• In-app live sharing to Facebook and Twitter, fitness insights, and badges for RunKeeper Elite users

Download the new version and give it a whirl!  (You can switch to a different language in the settings tab.) And if you have friends who speak one of these languages, make sure to let them know that RunKeeper now speaks their language as well :)

And finally, if you speak a language that isn’t on this list and want to see RunKeeper do the same, let us know in the comments below.  This is just the beginning!

Android users, we’ve got a very exciting beta version for you to play around with. It’s our 3.2 update, which includes six new language translations: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese! This also includes a great display on your goal progression after each activity, and RunKeeper Elite enhancements like live sharing, badging, and new mobile fitness insights.

If you happen to speak one of those six new languages,  we’d love any suggestions on translation fixes. We’re working this week on improving the text for nuances and subtleties across the different languages, and we need all the help we can get! Additionally, if there are any running specific terms that aren’t translated correctly, we’d love your input. You can reach out to community@runkeeper.com with this feedback.

As usual, it would be great if you could keep an eye out for any bugginess on the technical side. Please provide us as much information as you can (via the comments section below) about any bugs you’re seeing, and the steps you take to reproduce it. If you are a developer, feel free to use developer tools to generate bug reports and send them over to us at support@runkeeper.com.

Now for the fun part! To install the beta:

1) Go to application settings and allow installation from unknown sources

2) Click the button below from your Android browser to get the new APK.

Again, thanks so much for your feedback on this truly global initiative!

This Valentine’s season, we’re throwing a whole lotta love your way, Android users. We are pleased to announce the all-new RunKeeper 3.0 for Android! 

It includes a brand new user interface, complete with a simpler, more inviting design, and lots of new features that you’ve long been asking for! This new version was built by some serious in-house Phandroids on the RunKeeper team (with Android’s design guidelines in mind), and will provide a solid foundation to build upon as we continue to add new features and improve what we’ve got.

New in this release:
Visual redesign
- Complete visual redesign from the ground up with Android design guidelines and best practices in mind
In-activity splits
- Shows your pace per mile/km or workout interval throughout the activity (there was some serious celebration about this one around the office)
‘Me’ tab 
- Central place in the app to view your goal progress, personal records, and activity tally over time
Audio cue improvements
- More robust audio cues
Workout reminders
- The ability to schedule your next workout when you finish the last one, to provide an extra layer of accountability to make sure you get out there when you should    

We hope you enjoy this gift from the RunKeeper team! It was truly a labor of love, and sets the table for us to bring lots of additional improvements to the RunKeeper Android experience in 2013.

 Download the 3.0 update here and let us know what you think!

Adam Stroud has long been one of RunKeeper’s most avid Phandroids, so we wanted to let him give you an inside look at what’s been happening in the development process for Android 3.0: 

We’re excited over at RunKeeper about the fast-approaching release of our 3.0 app for Android! This update includes a major visual redesign and long-requested new features, but it also reflects a refreshed thinking in how we build the Android experience at RunKeeper.

During the development process, we took the opportunity to not only rethink how our app looks, but also to rethink how we deliver it to our users. An important trait of any quality app is providing the user with an experience that they are familiar with. While refreshing each and every screen in our app, we took special care to ensure that the RunKeeper experience is in line with the overall Android user experience. Ensuring that we comply with Android design principles allows us to give our app its unique identity while presenting a feel that is still intuitive to the user.

We also continued giving the app a more modern Android look. We started this process with the previous release with the addition of the action bar. RunKeeper 3.0 adds “swipeable” tabs and Google Play in-app payment, alongside other tweaks. We also developed an internal component library that is heavily influenced by Android design best practices. This gives the user a look and feel that is more consistent with other high-quality Android apps. We feel this provides a better overall experience for our users.

While thinking about how to refresh RunKeeper, it became clear we were under utilizing the Android theme framework. With RunKeeper 3.0, we totally re-engineered our in-app theming to create a user experience that is not only consistent throughout the app, but also allows us to easily modify the look of the app in the future. These updates addressed the immediate consistency problems while also providing flexibility for future development. This was a major improvement over earlier releases, and creates a strong foundation for us to efficiently add on new features this year.

RunKeeper 3.0 was a large undertaking, but it was truly a labor of love. We are proud of what we have created and hope that the RunKeeper Android users will be as excited about the update as we are. If you’d like to test the beta build in the meantime; it is available here.  

By Adam Stroud
Lead Android Developer at RunKeeper

Attention RunKeeper Android users!

Below you will find beta build (v2.14.0.2) of the RunKeeper App for Android ready for you to test!

We’ve addressed all of the issues reported in the previous beta build and believe this is a release candidate. Take it for a test drive and let us know how it goes.

Changes include:

-Added Android Action bar navigation

-New ‘Activities’ View 

-Updated “Save Activity” screen

-New “Friends” tab

-Auto-pause bug fix

Now for the fun part! To install the beta:

1) Go to application settings and allow installation from unknown sources

2) Click the button below from Android browser to get the new APK.

Don’t be shy! Leave your feedback in the comments section below.