Location Based

Restaurant Finder
Application Android

Abhinav Jain(10103596)
Harsh Agrawal(10103631)

Lets put on our Thinking

Hats
Imagine you are just visiting a city like
Delhi for the first time on a travel tour and
you have no idea that where to eat the
delicious food as per your choice and also
satisfy your pockets?
You are standing at a place and have no
idea about the nearest hang out spots.
What will you do?

Introduction
Location-Based Services or LBS allow software to obtain
the phone's current location. This includes location
obtained from the Global Positioning System (GPS)
satellite constellation, but it's not limited to that.
The API is considered as "optional API as an
application can still be build without using the LocationBased API.
For example, an Android application cannot be written
without using the Activity and Intent APIs, but an
application may not need to know where the user is, so
the need of the Location-Based Services API maybe not
be use. In this sense, the LBS API is optional where the
Activity API is not.

Why this Domain?!?!?!

Because there is lot of scope in this

domain. In todays world everyone is
equipped with powerful smart devices.
No need to handle or manage big data.
Low Cost effective application for smooth
run and there is no need to care about the
dynamicity of data

What is Restaurant
Finder?
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 restaurant in the city, but also he can make
a choice of the best restaurant based on the rating. 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 provided by the others users. They
can also send their own review to their friends via E-mail.

Introduction to Restaurant
Finder
The user interface is kept simple and understandable. The user need not take any additional effort to
understand the functionality and navigation in the application. The colors are chosen in such a way that
user can easily understand where the input has to be given. Hints are given to help the user in giving the
correct input.
The following are the main screens and features in this application.
Home Screen
Map Screen Where Tagging is done
Profile Of each Restaurants
Search Screen
Dialing screen
List Of restaurant Screen
Email Screen

1.)HOME SCREEN

As soon you launch the app this screen will appear first.
In this screen you will find 4 option i.e Restaurant, bars,
cafes and Search. Clicking You any of the above 3 option
you will go to the loading screen and after loading of the
data you will get the location on the map. On clicking on
the last option you will go to the search screen where
you can write any text and find any restaurants.

2.)Map Screen
This screen will display or tag all the location that are
present in the 5 KM radius from the current location
and will show you the location as shown in the figure.
On clicking on any of the pins you will redirected to
the profile page of the restaurant.

3.)Profile Screen
This is the profile screen where you will find all the
related information about the restaurant like that
address, website , phone no., ratings etc . you can view
this information and decide on which restaurant stand
as per your liking.

4.)Search Screen
If User want to search for a particular restaurant then
this option suits for him the best. This option is
available on the home page. Just click on the option
and this page is displayed. Write the name of your
restaurant and the app will display according to the
google page rank the top 5 restaurant in the list. You
can click on any one of them and they will take you to
the profile page of the restaurant.

5.)Dialing Screen
This option is made to ease the user to contact to
restaurant. The contact no. is available on the profile.
If user want to book a table or contact the restaurant
of any of the assistance then they can directly call
from the app itself and come back to the same
position without the app being shutdown.

6.)List Of Restaurant Screen

After you search for a particular restaurant then this
screen will be shown displaying the top restaurant
as per google page rank. On clicking on any of this
option you will get the desired information from
their page only.

7.)Email Screen
As you can see that you can share your reviews
regarding a particular restaurant over mail to your
loved ones and to a social group through share your
review option on the home screen.

Tools Used in our

project!
Eclipse
Google Places APIs
Android SDK
Javascript
Google Map API V2

Findings
During the course of this project there are many finding that we have come across.
In big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore etc majority of population are of
professional, industrialist etc who have got money but less time to waste. These
type of community people usually have their breakfast, lunch and dinner outside
as they have no time to cook or they are bachelors or both husband and wife are
working. What problem they come across is that they have got very less time so
they go to whichever restaurant they find first. What happen after getting into the
restro is either they dont like the food or if the food is good then they have to pay
more for the same taste of food available nearby that restaurant that to with great
ambience. This finding really motivated us to make an app for this community so
that we can save both their time as well as money. But later on we realized that
other communities like that of students, workers etc can also find this app useful
and that give us idea to put a search box as well for specific finding by the user.
The most important data of Restaurant Information is the ratings and the user
reviews. So we have provided an e-mail option to the user in order to provide
reviews over mail to his friends or to some restaurant page through this service.

Conclusion
This is my first attempt in developing a mobile application with the use
of Google Place APIs which gave me a basic understanding of
development and challenges of getting information from the APIs and
parser it to the desired format. The main aim of the project is to
provide an easy to use application for searching the restaurants. So
that we can save time of person in finding a good restaurant at not well
known place. The Developer can also build this kind of app with their
own database to improve the quality content and to make his app as
little bit faster. The database application will be useful for the user
when there is no facility of the going online as well. There are many
improvement that are to be done in this application but as of know
whatever we have come up is performing as per standards and is upto
the mark. The application has been implemented and tested on real
devices.

Future Plans
The application can be improved in many ways and can be
extended to support more devices like the tablets and iOS
devices. Following are some of the possible extensions:
1.) The application can be extended to provide a more
advanced search by taking the zip code as the input.
2.) For the selected distance range, all the restaurants in
the distance range can be displayed irrespective of the city.
3.) There can also be ways to directly navigate the user to
the restaurants site or provide a way to call the restaurant
when clicked on the phone number.

4.) The user can post on social networking sites the place
which the user presently visiting.
5.) Can tag the dishes he likes at a particular restaurant for
the future aspects.
6.) Can invite friends at a particular restaurant for any
special occasion.
7.) Can provide feedback to different groups on social
networking sites.
8.) Database of all the user information can be created
which in turn can be used for blogs, newsletters etc.

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Thank You!!!