manishk

We have worked on making the tracking part as efficient as possible(code optimizations). Also the tracking will be on for a very limited time 45 mins to 1 hour(around decided time to meet) and the interval for location updates will not be very small hence helping in battery preservation.

Hi.. I just posted about our solution in the comments section.

I think facebook events is more catered towards events i.e weddings, parties etc and not the weekly casual hangouts we do with our friends. Moreover I haven't met a lot of users who actually use it despite it being around for a long time.

About your question, the user doesn't have to enter any information for ETA. The app calculates that based on the hangout destination and your current location.

Here are the details about the solution: The app will ask users to select 1) Friends they want to go out with 2) Choose a datetime that they like to suggest 3) Select a place from list of places shown by the app based on interest(food, entertainment, activities etc). The app then notifies selected friends via notification(if they already are a user) or sms(first time invite). The others in the hangout can suggest their own place/datetime and also say yes/no for the invite.

Due to the decisive nature of the app(yes or no) and no chat will result in much faster and decisive planning. Also the app will broadcast location updates to the users of the hangout along with ETA for a certain period of time at the decided time of hangout.