1. What is/are the problem/s you want to solve? Please provide background based on research.

Trip assistant app allows users to plan their trip to New York. As there are hundreds of travelers planning daily from the world to visit main attractions of New York but being new to city they have no idea how to plan their visit to each place. There are various problems which are faced by new travelers like the best mode to reach to any place, famous restaurants, stay and rentals, average cost per day per person, share the trip information to other friends via email or other sharing apps.

Hence, its a one stop shop for users planning trip to New York.

2. Who are the users you are targeting? Please use a Persona to describe your users and draw a picture of your target user.

People who are travelling to travel New York are the users we are targeting. New York is a bucket list city. For those who thrive on high energy, it’s impossible to exhaust the city’s possibilities. There is so much to do and, for those who are visiting, there is never enough time to see it all. Whether you’re in town for a day trip or for an stay. Most people could not cover most of the places and their visit remains incomplete. This app will help people to plan their trip to each place without hassle with all the necessary information at one go and making effective use of money and time.

3.What are the major features of the solution? List the features.

The major features of the solution are: -

• Local attractions
• Famous restaurants
• Stay and rentals
• Best mode
• Share information with other people

4. How is this solution unique? How does it relate to existing solutions on the market? What are 5 solutions similar or related to what you want to do in the Google Play Store. Do the research and know that you are probably not reinventing the wheel!

This solution is unique because it helps to tell users about all the necessary details required to plan a trip at one go. Existing solutions do use information like famous restaurants ,best mode ,stay and rentals but this solution provide a good combination of above with average cost per day for 1 person and share trip information to other people which is not provided in other existing applications. Some of the similar apps are as follows:

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spiritapps.android.tripplannerapp.
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gfnork.roadAtlas
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tripomatic

5. What technologies, APIs etc will you be using to develop this solution? Provide links and explanations.

The technologies that we will be making use of are: *Android Studio- https://developer.android.com/studio/ Android Studio will be used to develop the UI. firebase- https://firebase.google.com/ firebase will be used as the realtime database for the application.