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Application for Android

Restaurant Finder

PROJECT REPORT
ABSTRACT
AND
SNAPSHOTS

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Visvesvaraya Technological University

Belgaum, Karnataka - 590014

A Project

Report
on

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.

Mr. Lokesh M.R.

Lecturer ISE,
Dayananda Sagar College
of Engineering, Bangalore.

2008-2009
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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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.

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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.
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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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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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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

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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.
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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
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restaurants webpage on click. Hence the user can browse through different dishes &
offers available for that restaurant.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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