BIXI for Android
The bike/dock reporting on this new version is totally off. This morning it was telling me that docks had 76 bikes on them! The old version had limited features but it was clean, listed my close by or favourite stations quickly and easily, and allowed me to navigate problem free. This version is just a mess to the point of being completely useless. Update Sept 2016: Finally had to uninstall, as the app wouldn't get past the load screen. Just crashed every time I tried to open it. Have installed an alternate app instead. This one's useless.
Added a star for recent unlock code and pass buy updates. One more if the interface were simpler, especially to access favorites quickly. Une étoile de plus pour l'ajout du déverrouillage et de l'achat de passe. Une autre si l'interface était plus simple, particulièrement accéder plus rapidement aux favoris.
Not only does it not let you rent cause of the terms and service not loading but you have to swipe backwards through the dates for 5 mins to find your birthday!! HORRIBLE DESIGN
I'm visiting Montréal w/my wife for the Jazz fest. We liked idea of Bixi, but hate the implementation. Turns out you are not allowed to create an online account w/o a Canadian address. Thus the main benefit of this app is denied to international visitors and confines us to using the excreable kiosks on the racks, which invariably have a long line of confused visitors trying to use them I'm sure there is a satisfactory byzantinely bureaucratic reason for this. All hail the beneficent power of committees!
App works as advertised saved me a lot of time. Beware the broken bikes however, this app will not differentiate on the map between viable bikes and those that have been marked as broken and disabled. BIXI you need to get this implemented ASAP, I just wasted 20m chasing after bikes only to come across 3 stations holding nothing but disabled bikes.
The app itself is an improvement from its former version (lots of new features). However, it would report the wrong number of bikes/docks a station had. Not fun being stuck with a bike when you checked ahead of time to specifically avoid this from happening. Might be a problem with their system and not this app.. But still a disappointing start to the season!
My major concern is absolutely unreliable reporting of the bikes/racks availability. Don't know if it's a system error or apps bug. But it is what for I use this app, and it doesn't work. I hope it'd be fixed. Sometimes it crushes on the start up. the phone reboot helps with this issue.
The docking station info is always wrong, and there is no way to know how many bikes or touch screen consoles are out or order. Only good to know where the docking stations are :( what the hell does it mean when a docking station shows a full red dot???
This one is so unreliable, imprecise, unstable that I decided to switch to Transit app
The new "function" that rotates the map in true north instead of the usual (with north-south streets being vertical) is really annoying and it's really a regression more than an improvement. So much so that i use the transit app instead to find bikes and look at the bike/station data. Also the annoyance of seeing the map move when looking at it (plugged in to the accel or gyro data i'd guess.. ) is really not fun (read dizzying) especially when on a bixi on a street corner.. I only use the app to look at my trips and statistics. either fix it or add the option to either use "true north" or "city north" in options. This app goes down to 2 stars from previoulsy 4 stars.
Je mets 1 étoile pour compenser les fausses critiques à 5 étoiles.
You need to go to the menu, settings and change "refresh" which is on "manual" to 15s.
Il serait par contre pratique de pouvoir recentrer la map dès l'ouverture de l'application.
Data about bike availability is only real time if you click refresh. Our tax $ hardly at work.
Pourquoi je ne peux pas avoir l'application en français? Je trouve ça poche en maudit.
This app was just perfect. It accurately located all the bike stations (of which there were tons) with accurate updates of the number of bikes in each rack. When offline it still provided the station locations. What else could I ask for? It was great
I do better. Search 'findmybikes' app ;) Grande amélioration de l'aspect visuel. La commandite a été réduite à une place raisonnable ce qui est très bien. Cependant, trop de fonctionnalités ont été intégrées aux dépends de l'utilisabilité, attendez vous à beaucoup cliquer. L'intégration de l'espace personnel est anecdotique. Comme la version Web, il ne semble pas qu'une réflexion sur les usages ait été menée. Bref, grand place à l'amélioration. Je fais mieux. Cherchez l'app 'vélocalise' ;)
- A place to access only your favorite stations (like in the previous app ) would be really useful (not on the map, but like a list). - Every time we open the app, the map should be refreshed automatically. - otherwise the redesign of the app is well done, we have access to much more information
Works a lot better than last year's version. We can now sign in and have access to our profile. Favorite now showing on the map directly. Will display available spaces or bikes on one click.
The app crashes on my LG G3 at launch since the last Android OS update I got last week. I tried to uninstall and reinstall and nothing changes. It crashes right after loading the map. Please fix it, I use this app a lot! :(
The new interface is so much better!
I hope it works for the new season
Crash on launch on HTC M8
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A great way to find a bike to get around. It'll show you all the locations including how many bikes are there and how many empty spots there are. However once in a while it indicates that there are bikes there when there aren't or that there are empty spots when they aren't which is quite frustrating but overall it works quite well and even has a timer to let you know when your time has run out.