01-07-2013, 02:22 PM
PATH TRACKING AND SHARING APPLICATION
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Introduction
As our client, 99x Technology proposed, the main idea of our project is to track the path a user travels and share it with other users of the application. Also it includes features like adding points of interests, tagging photos at relevant places, comment based system to remove false sharing and will include many other features as the application develops. Our app targets the android platform since there are lot of local users of android and smart phones are becoming a must have thing in the present society. Locally android has been the main choice of smart phone users since android phones are cheaper than Apple phones and Windows phones. So we planned on using android as the main platform.
Background and Motivation
Android platform is a JAVA based platform for mobile phones which is highly used now days. Nearly 50% of the Smartphone market is obtained by Android. If we consider locally 60-70% smart phones are running android platform. Researches say by 2015 android will be the leading operating system in smart phones. When considering about the local market there is growing demand for android, so we mainly target android platform when developing our application.
There are lot of location based applications on android platforms, When we look in to the android application store which is Google play, there is a huge number of location based applications which are having features like showing the location of the user, showing the route to a destination, Adding photos to relevant places, Adding Points of interests, checking in at places. But we couldn’t find a good application which gives users the facility to track their paths and share it with other users. Though there is lot of applications they have not fulfilled all needs of the customer. So in our solution we are proposing an application which will satisfy almost all the requirements that a user expect from a location based application.
Problem in Brief
In Urban areas it’s very hard to travel by vehicles at busy hours. And there’s no good way to avoid such traffic and travel if a person is new to that area. There can be roads with less traffic and roads which are shorter than usual routines. Currently available apps are able to show these regular/Main routines if a person selects a destination. But it’s very hard for a new person or for even a neighbor of that area to avoid traffic and travel quickly.
Lot of people do travelling as a leisure time activity, there is no such app that guides people when they are travelling, when traveling long distances people usually miss important places simply because they are not aware of those places. And travelers face problems when finding accommodation, food and other necessary things in these trips.
There are some existing apps which are able to track paths and share with others. But they are only able to share them with friends and there’s no way to know whether the paths are reliable or not.
Aim & Objectives
The aim of the project is to develop a system to track and share tracked user paths with other users which will give the abilities such as finding the shortest route between two locations, Showing Points of Interests(Supermarkets, Filling Stations, Banks and etc.), finding the easiest route in rush hours and Provide guidance to long distance travelers. These features will fulfill almost all the requirements of a User of location based android application.