Mobile Based Social TV Application on Android Operating System

People watch television for entertainment and knowledge purpose. Imagine watching a Cricket match with your friends even though they are not with you. Social television gives you the facility to share your views of shows you are watching and also socialize at the same time. But the problem with the social television available now in most of the countries is, they don’t have enough bandwidth of internet and so service providers are also limited. The “LounGer”, the application we are developing targets mobile smartphones as well as tablets who use relatively lower bandwidth. The purpose of choosing Android platform is that most of the smartphones and tablet pc’s now a days run on Android operating system. LounGer facilitates its users with features like various social activities which include profile view, shout-out message, chatting, and friends’ activities. Also search activity in which one can search for basic plot, storyline and cast of a movie or television show, their rating and reviews by the user. LounGer also keeps schedule of shows on numerous television channels. In conclusion, this will be a very useful application which will be portable, cost effective and fun.

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