Android App Based Tourist Guide

In a society undergoing rapid changes, future museums will contribute to human culture by means of smartphone technology that promotes active interaction with the public. As the electronic techniques advance, computing machines have been miniaturized and smart phones are equipped with powerful processors, large memories, sensor, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. Since android based smart phone is a personal belonging, it is an excellent candidate device on which a context-aware service is provided. This paper introduces our Android application that recognizes the tourist place in which a user is interested and displays useful information like historical importance in the form of text, photo gallery and video clips. The goal of proposed work is to provide correct and easy information to the tourist, to make tourism attractiv