Addis – A City Guide Mobile Application
Solomon, Wubshet (2016)
Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016061112748
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2016061112748
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The rapid growth of tourism industry in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, attracts many tourist and today the country becoming one of the tourist destinations in Africa. In addition the city is the seat for African Union headquarters and home for many international organizations. Due to these facts of the city it is obvious to have a means to deliver enough information to the visitors using smart phone.
The main purpose of the project was to design a city guide mobile application under the Android platform which helps the user to navigate places within the city, assists in searching for hotels and historical places easily. In addition, the application provides the current currency exchange rate of Birr, the Ethiopian currency, in terms of international currency and also allowed easy reservation of hotels by converting the web view to a mobile application.
The project was designed and implemented by considering basic requirements for a city guide application showing a map, locating places with customized and clustered markers on a map and each marker representing a specific coordinate which is a combination of Latitude and Longitude values. In this project these values were saved in JSON file along with name of the location and accessed by the application from a server to plot a marker on Google Maps.
Overall, this project work was good exposure to understanding how Android mobile applications are developed to solve existing problems.
The main purpose of the project was to design a city guide mobile application under the Android platform which helps the user to navigate places within the city, assists in searching for hotels and historical places easily. In addition, the application provides the current currency exchange rate of Birr, the Ethiopian currency, in terms of international currency and also allowed easy reservation of hotels by converting the web view to a mobile application.
The project was designed and implemented by considering basic requirements for a city guide application showing a map, locating places with customized and clustered markers on a map and each marker representing a specific coordinate which is a combination of Latitude and Longitude values. In this project these values were saved in JSON file along with name of the location and accessed by the application from a server to plot a marker on Google Maps.
Overall, this project work was good exposure to understanding how Android mobile applications are developed to solve existing problems.