Ticketmaster for Android (Uni project)

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I have always wanted a mobile version of tickemaster for my phone. Sure i could use the site but its highly bloated for a phone using 3G.

My award at uni is "Applied IT" so i can choose any subject to do. I am currently near the end of year 2 and want to start my final year project as soon as possible.

EVERYONE on my award is doing a boring website with database combo. Its soooo predictable and id imagine the lectures are bored of seeing them. I want to take this opportunity to do something different. I have never made an android application and have 0 experince with Java.

Ive got pretty much a whole year to learn so im asking now how viable this sounds.

My application needs to take a data feed from ticket-masters server. The end user needs to log in to there ticket-master account (maybe using a redirect to the actual log in area of the site?) and then be able to see and search all available tickets and then be able to purchase them using the card details on there account.

Now id imagine the data feed will make this easier and in truth there are only 18 marks out of 100 for the actual application so it doesn't need to be amazing.

My only experince is HTML, CSS and i have a very good grounding in photoshop/Illustrator so can do decent graphics for the app.

So far i have one andriod book and have the SDK installed.

Any ideas/starting points or please tell me this is a stupid idea and i should give up :D





Mods move this to program forum if you think it would be better
 
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Can't help here, but this would be very popular. You also have to ask why it hasn't been done before?
 
Begbie said:
Can't help here, but this would be very popular. You also have to ask why it hasn't been done before?
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Yes i have always thought this. I wouild stick my neck out and suggest tickemaster do not want any 3rd party people involved with moblle side of things. Although they do have an affiliate program.

Either case it doesnt matter as its not going to be for the public
 
you may already know this but there is an m.ticketmaster version of the site

also id be worried about Ticketmaster releaseing an official app before yours is done/due in and then you been asked by uni ''why?''
 
"andy" said:
you may already know this but there is an m.ticketmaster version of the site

also id be worried about Ticketmaster releaseing an official app before yours is done/due in and then you been asked by uni ''why?''
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Lol never knew that actualy.

It wouldn't realy matter to be honest. Most people are doing things that have been done and one of the research bits of the project is to show things that have been done before.
 
Can you not talk to your lecturer about the suggestion for your final year project? My course was smaller than most but even big courses must allow people to have a specific advisor?
 
Amp34 said:
Can you not talk to your lecturer about the suggestion for your final year project? My course was smaller than most but even big courses must allow people to have a specific advisor?
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Yea i have already. They said i should do it and the project proposal is fine.

Im not asking about this thought im asking if this seems to hard to do for a beginner to android
 
Daft question, would you need permission off ticketmaster to do this? I only ask because im doing Computer Science and soem of the people on my year needed permission to develop for the company they are doing their project for.

Other than that it sounds like a pretty good idea, youll just have to make sure you keep the thing secure if your planning on using it for transmitting over the internet.

A mate of mine is developing an iphone swordfighting app that allows 2 people to swordfight with their individual phones, i wanna try it when hes finished :)

Your being very smart starting early like matey, our comp science dissertations are due in next monday and a mate of mine only just finished programing last night (distributed network for solving problems, like SETI, F@H etc) so hes got a huge writeup to do in a week!
 
Java is hard and requires a lot at the beginning to pick up, seems to take a lot of code to get something done. Which uni you at mate?
 
I'd have to say there's not enough 'meat' in such an app to fulfil the requirements for a third year project. It'd be an interesting project to do but could you write thousands of words on the topic, justify it scientifically etc?
 
Just a thought..

What about having a confused.com/comparethemarket.com/etc/etc type site for tickets. There are many sites out there that offer tickets.. obv people want the best available.

But you probably can't actually pull this off without the sites having some kind of xml/feed that can take these requests and return data..
 
SiD the Turtle said:
I'd have to say there's not enough 'meat' in such an app to fulfil the requirements for a third year project. It'd be an interesting project to do but could you write thousands of words on the topic, justify it scientifically etc?
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Its definately do-able, my dissertation is based on formal model design (UPPAAL if youve ever used/heard of it) and im on 14,000 words with about 10 pages left to write :p Only thing I would say is that youll have to do a lot to keep the thing secure, pull the argument that the security required in the design is essential.

A mate of mine is developing a mobile phone mp3 player, and another is developing an iphone game and another is developing a time management app for a blackberry so i wouldnt say its too simple.

darkcooleo said:
Java is hard and requires a lot at the beginning to pick up, seems to take a lot of code to get something done. Which uni you at mate?
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Definately agreed, if youve never done java before and you want to use it, then id strongly recommend you start reading up on it now, or even bettter try to build sections of the product you want to produce as you learn the product.
 
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You can if you want, as long as its computng related you can choose your project area as long as you can give a viable argument that its related to your course, hence me running away from standard programming techniques.
 
I'm at staffs uni. There is only 18 marks for the project and the rest is for the write up. I'm. Going to do a section at a time and learn as I go
 
If there's not an API to ticketmaster to do the kind of things you want you're going to basically be implementing a web client and have to parse the HTML and format your own responses. Something like tamperdata for firefox and Wireshark will help you work out what is going on.
Any little change by them could scupper your app though.
 
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