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.

1. Location Based Restaurant
Finder Application Android
Abhinav Jain(10103596)
Harsh Agrawal(10103631)

2. 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?

3. 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 Location-Based 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.

4. Why this Domain?!?!?!
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Because there is lot of scope in this domain. In
today’s world everyone is equipped with powerful
smart devices.
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No need to handle or manage big data.
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Low Cost effective application for smooth run and
there is no need to care about the dynamicity of
data

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Tools Used in our project!
Eclipse
Google Places APIs
Android SDK
Javascript
Google Map API V2

15. 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 don’t 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.

16. 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.

17. 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 restaurant’s site or provide a way to call the restaurant
when clicked on the phone number.

18. 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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20. ThankYou!!!