CityShopperTV

Easy shopping and buying from local businesses using your android TV

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Inspiration

While traveling, and visiting a new city, one of the most time consuming things is to find: what to eat, what to do for fun, where to shop.

The process normally starts by hitting Google to find: which website to go, or what app to download in order to find more information and complete a transaction.

Why not build an application that could be used on Android TV, that would provide the visitor not just with information but with easy ways to purchase.

What it does

I started with the 'persona' of traveler coming to a hotel room, equipped with an Android TV.

When it runs for the first time, we show how you would configure the application for a "hotel room". Once you use the BACK button you are taken to the rest of the experience. It could be expanded in future releases to control the room temperature, open/close blinds, control lights, etc.

It presents the user categories to browse: Eat, Explore, Shop,etc. And from there they can browse a curated list of businesses and the ads they have published.

Ads are powerful, because you can buy what is advertised with just a few clicks, we call these FAST ORDERS.

The solution is applicable to home users, or university students, buying from the comfort of homes/dorms, I'm demoing the app configured for hotel use. Name and payment information will be pulled from the hotels systems

Challenges I ran into

Make the application simple to use, so the user can accomplish what they want without too much hassle.

How I built it

I used Android Technology and Leanback framework for parts of the UI. Using REST calls to interact with the Java backend the backend and the POS communicate via a RabbitMQ server.

Credits

Images: https://unsplash.com/license and https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/ and https://www.designevo.com/pricing.html

Voice Over: My wife!

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Updates

posted an update —

Point of Sale app shown in video, is an android app that listen to a queue (RabbitMQ) and retrieves the orders, It is connected via Bluetooth to an inexpensive printer.

How long would it take to do a production implementation? Being conservative a couple of weeks. Merchants can load their menus/catalogs with Excel.

1) We wanted to build something that a lot of people would be inclined to use following Google's 'Toothbrush Test'

“Is this something you will use once or twice per day, and does it make your life better?”

https://qz.com/251042/google-has-one-essential-test-when-it-thinks-about-buying-a-company/

2) Something that would make people think "I can do more with AT&Ts platform than with other alternatives"

3) No complex setup or other equipment to buy (at least not on the consumer side)

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