Consumer Profile
The customer hails from the travel industry and owns one of the biggest travel enterprises in the USA. He plans for tour arrangements in the district of New Orleans for areas such as Garden District and others. He plans on expanding his services to Australia and the UK. To keep pace with the latest trend of “mobile first approach” and to help his travelers visit new places with simplicity and find out everything about the place, the client felt the need to create a mobile app.
Scope of Work
As the customer belongs in the tourism industry, he is mostly aware of the issues faced by travelers while visiting a new place. The travelers find themselves lost, and without direction if there is no proper guide to tell them about a new place. Mostly, they fail to comprehend which tourist spot is famous and what it is famous for. The client wanted to rectify this situation and thus, he requested an app, which can be the substitute for a tour guide using mobile phones. Further, he wanted a design as well as a navigation friendly app that is user-friendly.
Solution Summary
To solve the issue of the client, we developed a mobile app “New Orleans at Your Feet”. This application eliminates the requirement of tour guides, as travelers find out everything you need to know about a tourist shop using smartphones. We have made incorporated real time maps to make it simpler for users to travel to new locations. We have further, implemented many features in the apps such as geofencing. With the help of geofencing, a notification is send to an app when it device leaves and enters a geographical location, which is already set in the app. Additionally, we have also included voice narration feature that lets the tourists hear about a place in a pre-recorded voice within the application. Our designers took special care while making the app design too. With easy to understand navigation-we created just what the client needed.
Technology Used
For Android
- Language: Java
- IDE: Android Studio
- Minimum OS Support: Android API level 15 (Ice Cream Sandwich higher ver 4.0.3)
- Device Supported: Android Phone
- Version Control – SCM: Git (Bitbucket)
- Orientation supported: Portrait
- Project management: Basecamp 2
- App Tour Purchase: IAP (In App Purchase for Google)
- Others: Geofencing
Extension Used: Google SDK – FCM, Google Place API, Google Map SDK, Google Play Service
Extension Used: Third-party SDKs: Facebook SDK
For iOS
- Language: Objective-C
- IDE: XCode
- Minimum OS Support: iOS 8.0
- Device Supported: iPhone
- Version Control – SCM: Git (Bitbucket)
- Orientation supported: Portrait
- Project management: Basecamp 2
- App Tour Purchase: IAP (In App Purchase for Apple)
- Others: Geofencing
Extension Used: Third-party SDKs: Facebook SDK, Google Maps SDK
Primary Benefits
- Users can visit any places without the need of a guide, with just their mobile phones.
- Users can easily navigate and find locations, which are on the tour list
- Users can select and pick the tours as per their needs.
- To make the comprehension of travelers easy, the app has blinking lights to pinpoint exact locations.
- Users can schedule the tour as per their needs. For example, around noon, break or after lunch.
- Users can begin the journey by clicking on the map pins on the app.
