PROBLEM STATEMENT: We all have certain things to do when we go to certain places. May be buying something from a shop, or trying out a dish in a restaurant or a friend’s suggestion to visit a place when you are planning to visit a new city. But how often do we remember to do those things when we get to that place? Often we tend to forget them, when we are in the locations or in that vicinity.
SOLUTION: Bucket-list: A Location based reminder Imagine an app that reminds you about your tasks when you are in a location, or when you are in a nearby vicinity. That is what this project is all about. Using MapmyIndia API, we build an Android app that uses user locations to trigger reminders when the user is within a certain radius of user set locations.
USP: Present day apps that push notifications/ give reminders based on location do not entirely cater to the user’s needs. Often the user would want to know shortest route to a relevant location from the current location. On detecting the user’s location, not only does it push a reminder, but also invokes a mapmyindia based graphical UI that gives the shortest route to the relevant location.
Use Case 1: Suppose a person has made a list of items to be bought from SP road (a popular hub to buy electronics in Bangalore). The next time the user is in the vicinity of SP road, he/she will be shown a push notification to remind him/her about the things to be bought from SP road.
Use case 2: Considering a scenario where Bangalore based resident has plans of travelling to Hyderabad and intends to try some mouth watering biryani. On detecting the entry of the user into Hyderabad, the app will search for the nearest restaurants from the entry point (Hyderabad has multiple entry points) and would inform the user about the same. Depending upon the schedule and his/her availability, the user can zero down (from the options populated by the app) on the locality and the app sets the reminder for that locality.
TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
The app will use the location APIs of mapMyIndia and the GPS feature of android phones to achieve the required functionality. The interface of the app will be designed using the standard android design techniques.
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