The document outlines a COMS 6998 project presentation by Ajay Siva Santosh, Dimitris Paidarakis, Prateek Sinha, and Zissis Konstas. It discusses the application flow, APIs used, features, optimization, and future scope of their project. The presentation includes an introduction, demo, and overview of how users can get real-time views of places around them or of interest, check photos and trending places, and look at what is happening at favorite locations or around them through various images.

1. COMS 6998 project presentation
-Ajay Siva Santosh()
-Dimitris Paidarakis()
-Prateek Sinha(ps2791)
-Zissis Konstas()

2. } Introduction
} Application flow
} API’s used
} Features
} Application Optimization
} Future Scope
} Demo

3. } Users get a real time view of places around
them or any other place of their interest.
} Check out the latest pictures around you or
query for places you like.
} Check out which place is trending around
you.

5. } Google Places API
} Google Geocoding API
} Instagram API
} The Twitter REST API (was later decided not to be used in the
application)
} Facebook authentication SDK
} Parse Database
} Reachability

6. } Search what is happening around you!
} Look which place is trending around you.
} Check out what is going on, on your favorite
place.
} Check out various images around you.

7. } We do not ping the API’s continuously, to get the latest
data.
} Doing so would result in memory, battery and network
drainage.
} Thus we leave it to our users to refresh the application to
get the latest data.
} Asynchronous image loading.
} Asynchronous API calls
} Used Apple maps instead of Google maps to achieve
greater efficiency.

8. } Discovering the best place to go now based on
real time crowd sourced data.
} Develop a community of like minded users who
are interested in rating a place.
} Users of the app who are currently in a venue can
rate it on different interesting characteristics.
} On demand real time venue characteristics ,
provided by the users present there.

9. } Now we will begin the demo of our
application.