Mobile Application for Adelaide Festivals

This assignment explores the development of a GPS-enabled mobile application designed to showcase festivals happening in Adelaide. The prototype includes a map of Adelaide with festival locations, transport schedules, and estimated travel times. Recommendations for future development focus on platform compatibility, shortest distance calculation features, and incorporating portrait mode.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Discussion............................................................................................................................2
Requirements...................................................................................................................2
Design..............................................................................................................................3
Benefits............................................................................................................................4
Recommendation.............................................................................................................4
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................4
References............................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
This report is all about an app which runs on GPS (Global Positioning System) and aims
in providing complete map of Adelaide which will help the user in getting the details of name of
various street and location where the festivals are going on (Tracy, 2012). It keeps the details of
the ongoing festivals in Adelaide.
In this report a prototype of an app is made which will guide a user to all the ongoing
festivals in Adelaide (Charland and Leroux, 2012). This app will provide the schedule of all the
transports that are available in Adelaide and it also aim in providing transport time and stopping
type of the vehicle. There is certain recommendation for this app which has been described in
details.
Discussion
Requirements
There are generally four requirements for this application that are user location, android
platform, GPS and lastly stable mobile connection.
User location: User location is very important in achieving the detail location of user
which can easily guide him to a specific location (McWherter, and Gowell, 2012). It helps the
user in getting the shortest distance between his current location and final location or destination.
Android platform: Android platform is very essential for running this application.
Developers may develop this application on android platform as it is a globally recognized
application.

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GPS: It mainly uses GPS (Global Positioning System) for proper functioning. GPS aims
in providing the user with full access to of his or her location with respect to surrounding. This
application will make use of different location related to the application and provides him the
opportunity to move.
Stable mobile connection: This factor is considered to be a key element which is
necessary for proper working various application (Nayebi, Desharnais and Abran, 2012).
Because of the option of mobility various user can make use of all the available resources like
buses, cabs and trams for reaching its destination that are the various ongoing festival.
Design

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The proposed prototype will be helpful for the users to find out the festivals that are
happening in their nearby area (Corral, Sillitti and Succi, 2012). Here the prototype shows the
user can search any festival typing its name or finding the area in which he/she at that point.

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In this prototype the user can choose the date on which they want to attend the festival as
well as can see the popularity of the festival depending on the reviews on the other viewers
rating.

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In this prototype the user can select the type of the festival they want to visit and preview
the images and the main characteristics of the festival.

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The App will also allow the users to rate the festival they have visited and also comment
on the experience they have in the festival which will be shared if they on their social networking
site.

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Benefits
There are mainly four benefits of using this application that are creating an awareness
among the users, provides in details activities of the ongoing festivals in Adelaide (Wasserman,
2016). This application can be helpful in providing an easy navigation to the various user to
ongoing festivals in Adelaide
Recommendation
There are generally three recommendations for this application that are platform, shortest
distance between two points, Orientation.
Platform: At present the application is only available for android user as android is used
a large number of user globally. Android is considered to be one biggest mobile platform for
various application (Holla and Katti, 2012). In future this application should made in such a way
that it can run efficient in various platforms like IOS, Blackberry, Windows and many others.
Shortest distance between two points: This application can be beneficial in calculating
the distance between point and finding out the shortest route that is available for the user
(Holzinger, Treitler, and Slany, 2012). This application will guide the user in such a way that he
or she can easily reach his/ her friend within minimum time.
Orientation: At present the application is only available in Landscape mode but in the
near future developers can develop this application in portrait mode which can easily run in
various devices and its interface will remain unaffected due to change from one device to
another.

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Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that this report is all about an application
which runs on GPS (Global positioning system). This application generally focuses in providing
the complete map of Adelaide which can help the user in achieving the details of various things
like name of street and location of the various festival that are taking place in this city of
Australia that is Adelaide. The following report is all about a porotype to of an application which
can guide the user about the various ongoing festival in Adelaide. This application contains all
the schedule of transport which is available in this city. This application aims in providing
transport time and stopping type various mode of transport like buses, cars and many others.
Certain recommendation like platform, calculation of shortest distance and orientation has been
discussed in brief.

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