FLAMR

Client-server based network for finding music events in user's geographical area. Written for web and iPhone, FLAMR provides users with a nocturne-styled enhanced interface with preview of the event's flyer, extensive information on the event and the artists performing, streaming player for pre-listening to party's music, viewing user's comment and photo stream, rating and number of people attending. User can also rate, comment, take and send picture from the device. Web and server side, written with Ruby on Rails provides frontend for the application features (event preview, comment and photo stream, audio preview, event creation wizard, etc), backend for entity management and xml-based protocol for receiving requests and sending replies to the iPhone client. Server side also provides support for Apple streaming protocol. For the web side, we used RESTful Authentification, RedCloth, Graticule and Feed-normalizer. iPhone application is a thin client for the system, which displays and animates received content from the server and sends requests and binary info back to the server (search keywords, GPS coordinates, event ratings, photos for event stream). The client makes use of GPS (to find events near current location), camera (for photo stream), SSL for logging users in. The client was very specific about the design and animations, so we had to use several tricks to fit those requirements.

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