About this app

Build a location-based app like a tourist guide or a nearby places app.

Supports user login via facebook or email, ratings, and reviews of places, featuring certain places, sorting by distance, name or rating, map view with custom place icons. The template provides 5 monetization methods, including native ads and referrals to booking websites. For those who love blogging, the template also includes an optional fully functional Blog, manageable through the admin page.

The package includes all the source code for the Android App (Android Studio), the Admin page and the mini Web App.
admin web login
http://gabrielmbatha.co.ke/demo/city/login
Admin Username: admin@gmail.com
Password: 123456

FEATURE
Ratings and Reviews – Users can rate and review places.
Featured Places – Feature Places to make them stay on top.
User Login System (optional) – Users can log in via Facebook or by email/password.
Sorting – Sort Places by distance, ratings or name
Map View – View Places in the vicinity and search places in the area.
Custom Map Pins – The map pins can be made custom through the Admin Page. The package also comes with 16 Pins.
Includes interstitial, Banner and Native Google Play Services Ads – Earn money from Ads.
All Graphics included – All graphics are also in .ai (illustrator) format
Share on Facebook and others – Lets users choose where they wish to share the place
Deep-link sharing – When a third party user clicks a link shared from the Town Tour Guide app, it will take him directly to the shared place, without having to download the app.
App Rating Feature – The app asks the user to rate the app after 5 clicks to make it easier for users to give you a good rating.
Very easy to customize – Most of the source code you need to customize is either in Strings.xml and configurations.java
Categories – Places can be put in categories.
HTML supported – The Place description supports rich text, HTML, images and youtube videos.
Google Analytics and Firebase – The template has google analytics and firebase to track user behavior.
Info Page – An extra page to put your custom information, about, terms and conditions, privacy policy or anything you wish.
Search – Users can search for places easily.
Admin Page – A powerful admin page to manage, edit, create places, categories, manage users, send push notifications and much more.
Admin Page Dashboard – View how many people viewed, bookmarked or shared your Places.
Side Navigation Menu – Easy navigation through the side drawer
Push Notifications – Includes firebase push notifications. Send them directly from the admin page.
Settings Page – Allows user to turn off Push notifications
RTL support – Right to left layout is supported.
Full-Screen Photos – Feature photos can be viewed in fullscreen mode.
Multiple Photos – Hold Ctrl on the admin page to add multiple feature photos.
Mini Web app – When a Place is shared, others that don’t have the app installed can still view the place online.
Facebook Comments – Facebook Comments can be turned on/off for each article.
Admin or Author – The Admin panel supports 2 types of accounts. The Author can only create and edit places.
Bookmark – A Place can be bookmarked to be seen later.
Blog Features
Scroll between articles – The user can scroll left/right to scroll through Blog articles.
Schedule Articles – Schedule an article to be published in a future date/time.
Headline Articles – An more important article can be made larger to grab more attention
Facebook Comments – Users can comment on Blog posts via facebook comments.

New features

New- Notification center
New-Application feature within the report module
-Survey and Reset Button
-Cross-group viewing of members-Admin can now set what groups should be cross viewable.
Numerous smaller updates

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.