Snapshots Application for Android

Restaurant Finder

PROJECT REPORT
ABSTRACT AND SNAPSHOTS

Dept of ISE, 2009 D.S.C.E, Bangalore

Snapshots Application for Android

Restaurant Finder

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Belgaum, Karnataka - 590014

A Project

on

Report

Location Based Restaurant Finder Application for Google Android Phones

Submitted in Partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science & Engineering Submitted by

Usman Sait A.K.

Under the Guidance Of Dr. M. Ravi Shankar Professor & HOD ISE, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore. Bangalore. Mr. Lokesh M.R. Lecturer ISE, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering,

2008-2009
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Snapshots Application for Android

Restaurant Finder

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Bangalore-560078.

ABSTRACT
Modern hand held devices such as smart phones and PDAs have become increasingly powerful in recent years. Dramatic breakthroughs in processing power along with the number of extra features included in these devices have opened the doors to a wide range of commercial possibilities. In particular, most cell phones regularly include cameras, processors comparable to PCs from only a few years ago, and internet access. However, even with all these added abilities, there are few applications that allow much passing of the environmental information and location based services. As mobile devices become more like PCs they will come to replace objects we tend to carry around such as checkbooks, credit cards, cameras, planners, mp3 players, etc. In short, we will be using them to accomplish our daily tasks. One application that falls into this category is the Restaurant Finder Application developed for the Google Android Phones. The prime objective of Restaurant Finder Application is to create a full fledged Android application which could locate a list of restaurants based on the location & type of the cuisine entered by the user. The user not only finds all the restaurants in the city, but also he can make a choice of the best restaurant based on the rating & cuisine he chooses to have. The user can also map the location of the restaurant on Google Maps rendered to the user on the phone & find the path from his current location or from any other location to the restaurant, the user has the facility to make a call directly to the restaurant and can also obtain the detailed review of the restaurant he chooses. The Project is developed in Java Programming Language by using the Eclipse Ganymede Integrated Development Environment (IDE). We use the Android Software Development Kit (SDK) which includes a variety of custom tools that help us develop mobile applications on the Android platform. The most important of these are the Android Emulator and the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in for Eclipse. Dept of ISE, 2009 D.S.C.E, Bangalore

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Restaurant Finder

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

Introduction
This chapter highlights the results of the project & the snapshots for each of the activities are shown along with the discussion of each activity describing its working. Each snapshot describes every single step of the Restaurant Finder Application. Three main activities as well as the options provided to the users in each activity such as menu options and the activities which are created on the click of these options are also shown and described in brief.

Snapshot of outputs:

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Snapshots Restaurant Finder Application for Android The highlighted icon is the image icon representation of the Restaurant Finder Application, on clicking it would open the application which results in the creation of the first activity.

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Restaurant Finder

This is the first screen or activity of the project output, which has user interface for the users to enter the location (city & state) of their choice. The Users are intended to click on the Get Reviews to go to the next activity or screen.

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Snapshots Application for Android

Restaurant Finder

The user is given a list of different cuisine categories from which he/she can choose based on his/her interest.

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Snapshots Restaurant Finder Application for Android This is the second activity which would result in the listing of the restaurants with user ratings based on the location & cuisine the user has requested for. On the click of the menu button 2 options would be made available, the next page of results would list the next 8 restaurants list (if available) & the change review criteria would take the user back to the first activity/screen. The user is intended to select/click one of the restaurants of his/her choice.

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Restaurant Finder

This is the third Activity which would give us brief details about the restaurant which we had selected in the second activity. It includes the image & full restaurant name, Rating, Review, Location & Phone Number. On the click of the Menu button, 3 options would be made available as shown.

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Restaurant Finder

This is the output screen of Get Full Review option in the third activity which would open a browser to give the full details about the chosen restaurant. It opens the chosen restaurants webpage on click. Hence the user can browse through different dishes & offers available for that restaurant.

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Restaurant Finder

This output screen is the result of the search criteria if the restaurants has multiple branches in the same city. The user could select the branch of his/her choice & could get it displayed on the map view.

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Restaurant Finder

This output screenshot displays Google Maps of the restaurants location chosen by the user. The user is provided with various options as shown, on the click of the menu button. The markers on the maps shows the restaurants location & its details.

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This output screen shows various details that the user can personalize. He/She can call the restaurant & also can save the number to the phones contact list.

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These screenshots shows when the user calls for the restaurant which he/she had chosen. On the click of a menu button various options would be made available for the user to personalize the contact information onto his device.

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These screenshots shows the map view region, if the user wants to optimize or trace the path of the restaurant which he/she had chosen from his/her current location. His/Her current location is determined by the GPS Receiver Hardware. Since we use the emulator the current location could not be determined as the hardware would be available in the Original Android Phones.

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Restaurant Finder

This screenshot shows the various Map Views that the user can choose, in order to make the user locate the restaurant more conveniently.

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Restaurant Finder

This screenshot shows the Satellite View of the Map along with the markers which points to the location of the restaurants selected by the user along with zoom controls in order to control & co-ordinate the location more appropriately.

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Restaurant Finder

This screenshot shows the Street View of the Map Location where the user can move the street-view marker around the map in order to locate & view the street, where it is available.

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Restaurant Finder

This screenshot show the direction path along with the estimated drive turns in miles so that the user can accurately figure-out the route to his destination address, on the click of the markers shown above the landmarks to the destination would be detailed with the estimated distance in miles.

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Restaurant Finder

Summary
In this chapter we saw all the snap shots of all the activities, along with the features provided to the user. The image icon is representation of the Restaurant Finder Application. The first activity has a user interface for the users to enter the location and select a cuisine of his/her choice based on the city & state. The second activity would result in the listing of the restaurants along with the user ratings based on the location & cuisine which the user has requested for and also the options such as to change the criteria or obtain next page of results was discussed. The third activity would give us brief details about the restaurant which the user had selected in the second activity, it includes the Image & the Full Restaurant Name along with the Rating, Review, Location & Phone Number. It also provides the user with various options such as to Map Location, Full Review List in the Browser which allows the user to post his own review about the restaurant and the facility for the user to call the Restaurant. The application was tested with various inputs and the results were obtained as expected.

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