The Nook also just received a powerful update that offers read-in-store functionality as well as a web browser and some Android games.
The new app also has an improved store locator functionality that includes access to 150,000 stores across the U.S. (and others, via crowd-sourcing).
The default GenePING uses Berkeley DB for Java [ 19], a transactional block store whose functionality maps closely to the PING interface API.
"We're hoping at some point to offer 'App Store-like' functionality to allow people to make money from selling software they write," he said in an interview.
With today's app updates, Walgreens mobile applications now include two SDKs: Aviary's Mobile Photo Editing SDK and the Walgreen's QuickPrint SDK, which allows any developer to add in-store print functionality in their own mobile app.
The app also includes a cross-store search functionality, search by product and brand, the ability to tap and hold to see an item's details, a discount slider that highlights the store's best savings, and notifications for expiring clippings and nearby offers.
The official Walgreens app is arguably not a bad one as far as retailers' apps go, offering lists, pharmacy access, refills by scan, weekly ads, mobile coupons, pill reminders and more, in addition to the usual text-based product search and store locator functionalities.
But the company thinks it's on the leading edge of a bigger change — Alstromer notes that seven out of the top 15 apps in the social networking category in the app store have voice functionality.
The results can be used in multiple ways, such as creating a new network from highlighted nodes (utilizing Cytoscape's functionality), storing resulting networks in the database, merging networks, and reusing the results by transferring names of highlighted nodes to new queries.
