Features

Table of Contents Droidkino features Before Opening the app Other During After

Droidkino features

Everything about Droidkino happens around watching movies in cinemas. Therefore, the features have been divided in three moments:

1. Before
2. During
3. After

If you want to implement a feature please create a wiki page for the feature and link it from this page. The new wiki page should contain:

• Brief feature description
• A link to a new issue with label "new feature" (current features) and assign it to you (or ask to be assigned)
• If the feature is rather complex then it would be good to explain how it will be implemented (design, architecture...)

Before

Opening the app

Usually the user will open the Droidkino app because:

• He/she wants to see a movie.
• He/she received an invitation.
• There was a push notification (e.g. "New in Finnkino: Planet of the apes").

From the above we can identify at least two features:

• Handle invitation sent to the user
• Handle push notification

Other

• Take a picture of a real poster (advertisement) and identify the movie
• Shake to select a random movie
• Movie information (used to filter):
  • Review (imdb?Rotten tomatoes?)
  • Price
  • Where
  • When
  • Seats available
• Movie trailer/preview
• Invite someone:
  • When to meet
  • Where to meet
  • How much you owe me?
• Save to the calendar - Let me know later (tied to the push notifications?)
• Reserve tickets
• Post to social networks
• Save to favourites
• How to get to the cinema

During

• Automatically (or remind the user) mute the phone when in the cinema (location/time based)
• Real-time subtitles (using augmented reality?)
• Director commentary
• Identify the trailers being shown before the actual movie and allow the user to save/favourite them.
• Games (movie trivia?) while waiting movie to start
• Buy merchandise related/shown in the movie

After

• Suggest places to go to eat/drink (that could be also before)
• Extras similar to those found in DVDs/BRs
• Rate the movie (IMDB...)
• Post to social network
• Buy movie's original soundtrack
• Buy merchandise related to the movie

1) Ability to share a movie with your contacts

• From a particular movie provide an option for "Sharing"
• Display a list of contacts to select
• Provide sharing method: email, sms, etc.
• Confirm and send email or sms with the movie title, link.

Similarly can be with the movie schedule.

2) Integrate information from IMDB NOTE: There is no official IMDB web service or api, but some sites offer an interface to it like www.imdbapi.com,

• Search these available apis, choose one
• Ability to see information from IMDB in the movie detail such as:

   * Director
   * Actors
   * Rating
   * Votes
   * Plots (summary in english)

3) Beautify the UI, improve the UX

• Add colors, fonts, styles, etc.
• Add app icon, and perhaps button icons
• Discuss how to improve the usability / navigavility.
• other cool ideas.

1. 1. Ideas from Key Note - Hacking Space 01.10.2011

NOTE: I removed the items, I created issues entries for them...Marcos

• hidden menu at the bottom, where you can go to the list of all shows (it's a secondary usability, can be hidden)
• possible second menu bar at the bottom of the list of movies played now - timeline of the whole day, with a red dot "you are here" style, or with small points on where the movies are
• search in the action bar