Find Nearby

P.Phani Kumar,
07681A0575,
IY-II CSE.
 Aim:-
 Google Android is an open mobile application development
platform.
 Software Stack.
 Android SDK.
 Using Java programming language and run on DALVIK.
ANDROID ARCHITECTURE

Fig. 4.1
 ADVANTAGES:
 Android Keeps Information Visible on Your Home
Screen
 Android Gives You Better Notifications
 Connected applications
 Using Java
 Ease of developing UI
 Support for Variety of IDEs
 Security
 Apache License
 Find Nearby
 Find Nearby is a yellow page service, for finding nearby
businesses like restaurants or hotels or ATMs.
 Work with multiple back-end engines (Yahoo, Google) .
 Using Google maps .
 An additional provision of showing the traffic on the route
to the POI selected is also given.
 The application enables the user to make inquiries to the
POI (Point Of Interest) searched .
 TTS (Text To Speech) output .
Select the category you want to search Select the city to search for Pizza

Query
Query=”http://local.yahooapis.com/LocalSearchService/V2/l
ocalSearch?
appid=YahooDemo&query=pizza&location=chicago+IL”
Yahoo! Backend Engine

Response

<ResultSet
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org.........>
………………………………………………
<Result>………………………….</Result>
………………………………………………
</ResultSet>

SAX Parser
Search Results for
Pizza in Chicago
 FEATURES: Giordano's Pizzeria at
6.25 Km
SHOW DETAILS MAKE ENQUIRY
VIEW MAP:

ZOOM-IN:
SHOW TRAFFIC : Showing Traffic

Heavy Traffic

Moderate Traffic

Light/No Traffic
SHOW DIRECTIONS : Showing Driving Directions
 ENHANCEMENTS

 Speech modality.
 Adding pop-ups.
 A native TTS (Text To Speech) can be implemented
rather than streaming the TTS from a (remote) server.
 Presently the application supports search for 13 POIs
in 12 cities. This list can be further extended.
 A support for speech output in other languages can
also be implemented.
 CONCLUSION

 Google Android proves to be an efficient platform for

mobile application development because of its
developer friendly interfaces .
 Find Nearby could be a very useful application when
it comes to its practical use. It reduces the user’s
browsing effort to find any business located in any
city .
 REFERENCES

1. http://www.motorola.com/
2. http://code.google.com/android/
3. http://www.oreillynet.com/
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/
5. http://www.anddev.org/