My Project Report Documentation with Abstract & Snapshots

Snapshots Restaurant Finder Application for Android

PROJECT REPORT

ABSTRACT

AND

SNAPSHOTS

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


Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBelgaum, Karnataka - 590014

A Project Reporton

“Location Based Restaurant Finder Application for Google Android Phones”

Submitted in Partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Engineering

inInformation Science & Engineering

Submitted by

Usman Sait A.K.

Under the Guidance Of

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

2008-2009

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGBangalore-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.



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:

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.



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.



The user is given a list of different cuisine categories from which he/she can choose based

on his/her interest.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



This screenshot shows the various Map Views that the user can choose, in order to make

the user locate the restaurant more conveniently.



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.



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.



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.



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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