Description:

Create a friend finder application for smartphones! The application allows the user to choose a friend from his friend-list, for which to get notified as soon as he is in his vicinity. The application is entitled to use the smartphone’s positioning methods (e.g., GPS, Cell-ID, WiFi) to track users in the background. Subscribing for friend finder scenarios is performed via the Positioning Enabler Platform.

Tasks:

• Analyze state of the art technologies and algorithms from research
• Implement API required by the user to subscribe for friend finder
• Implement user authentication and authorization
• Implement server vicinity reasoning algorithm
• Implement user notification method

Requirements:

• Android Development
• Java Application Server (J2EE)
• RESTFUL, XML

Supervisors:

Mohamed Salem, Ulrich Bareth