• Improve user session management for better authentication and session persistence.
• Develop and train a recommendation model for personalized event and place suggestions.
• Enhance user favorites functionality for both places and events.
• Improve the profile page with additional features and optimizations.

Summary: Implement session persistence, better authentication handling, and performance optimizations.

Acceptance Criteria: Users remain logged in unless they manually log out. No unnecessary session expirations.

Code Snippet:

// Session Persistence Implementation
const auth = getAuth();
onAuthStateChanged(auth, (user) => {
  if (user) {
    console.log("User is logged in:", user.email);
  } else {
    console.log("User is logged out");
  }
});

Summary: Develop an algorithm using machine learning techniques that works on content-based and user-feedback-based recommendations.

Progress:

• Currently training the model.
• Implemented an approach where event recommendations are based on user search history and favorite events.
• Search records are stored in dictionary format to track the highest searched cities by users.
• Fetching event data for these cities and finding similarities with user-saved favorites using cosine similarity.

Code Snippet:

    # Convert events to DataFrame
    fetched_df = pd.DataFrame([event for event in fetched_events])
    favorite_df = pd.DataFrame([event for event in favorite_events])

    similarity_scores = cosine_similarity(favorite_features, all_features)
    scores = np.mean(similarity_scores, axis=0)

    return recommended_events

Summary: Enhance the ability to save, update, and retrieve favorite places and events.

Acceptance Criteria: Users can efficiently manage their favorites without data loss.

Code Snippet:

export const saveUserFavoritePlace = async (uid: string, place: any) => {
  const userRef = doc(db, "user_favorites", uid);
  try {
    await setDoc(
      userRef,
      {
        places: arrayUnion(place), // Save place object
        savedAt: serverTimestamp(),
      },
      { merge: true }
    );

  }
};

export const removeUserFavoritePlace = async (uid: string, placeId: string) => {

  try {
    const docSnap = await getDoc(userRef);

      await updateDoc(userRef, {
        places: updatedPlaces, // Save updated list without the removed place
      });

    }
  }
};

Summary: Add more profile customization features and improve UI responsiveness.

Acceptance Criteria: The profile page is more user-friendly.

Code Snippet:

// logout
const handleLogout = async () => {
  try {
    await signOutUser();
    router.replace("/(auth)/login"); // Redirect to login screen
  } catch (error) {
    Alert.alert("Logout Failed", (error as any).message);
  }
};
//And more UI responsive and adding upload image option for the user.

Summary: Conduct thorough testing of all new features and improvements.

Acceptance Criteria: No major bugs, and all functionalities work smoothly.