Events! Android Project: Event Coordinator Piaoyang Cui Shilin Zhou Haoyang Chen

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Outline

•  Motivation •  Application Overview •  Implementation •  Future Improvement •  Demo •  Q&A

Motivation

We all know you are a social guru… But managing plenty of events and participants can be painful!

E.g. Invite people to your event? Control the admission? Notify people after agenda changes? Sharing photos taken in the event?

Motivation

You should utilize the power of Mobile Computing and Social Network!

-Manage everything in your phone -Using Facebook to distribute your event -Using Mobile Devices Push Notification to send out any notice

Motivation

We’d like to… 1.  Create, Modify, Delete events on phones 2.  Push Notifications 3.  Send invitations via Facebook if you want 4.  Join an event remotely and easily 5.  Check if any friends also joins that event 6.  Sharing photos of the event

Application Overview

Application Features

Facebook Login

Event List

After Login: Events Main List

Event Details

Summary of the event

Links to •  Gallery •  Friends list •  QR Sharing

Participants View Creator View

Event Details: Gallery

Sharing images: AWS S3 Cloud

Event Details: Friends

Facebook friends in the event

Event Details: Sharing on Facebook

QR Code Invitation

Android App Facebook

Event Creation Details

Event Edit

Only creators are allowed to update

Push Notification

Triggers: •  Event Update •  Event Deletion •  Event Approaching

Implementation

Architecture: 3-Tier Architecture

•  Client Tier: Android Client Application •  Server Tier: Web Server: AWS EC2 Storage Server: AWS S3 •  Database Tier: AWS Relational Database Service

Amazon AWS Cloud

EC2 for running the server •  Check and forward DB requests •  Broadcast push notifications RDS for storing event information S3 for sharing pictures

Google Cloud Messaging

Triggers: •  Event Update •  Event Deletion •  Event Approaching

http://www.androidhive.info/2012/10/android-push-notifications-using-google-cloud-messaging-gcm-php-and-mysql/

Facebook API

•  User Identification •  Friend List •  Public Action (post event invitation)

Technologies

Amazon AWS Cloud Facebook API Google Cloud Messaging QR Encoding and Decoding Android API 19– 4.4.2 …

Future improvement

1.  Better UI 2.  Better AWS Auto Scaling strategy 3.  More features

Real-time location sharing, Streaming data sharing, Instant message SNS, ...

Demo Time!

Q & A

Thank you!