LiquidGuides Android (Map, Schedule, HTML & Hyperlinks)

Note: this Bid is for Android, a similar project will be posted for iPhone If you can do both, that may be an advantage for both of us as long as your skills in both platforms are good. Bid is for development and acceptance into app market. Source code will be made available. this app is the read only mobile version of [login to view URL] Uses same server side code, so no server code is needed. API uses syntax like this: [login to view URL] and return Json and sometimes XML inside of Json Mobile app will allow users to download the guides that are shared or that they have created or bought on [login to view URL] Guides include: Places, events, guide info and Guide document (HTML) Places have a graphic icon, a label, a tag, hyperlinks and HTML Events have names, notes, start/end times and places associated with them HTML can have embedded images, embedded maps and hyperlinks Hyperlinks can be to: Html, images, video, audio, maps, URLs, Guide, next page, previous page, Place, page n, first page and last page Images are: jgp and png Videos are: wmv and mp4 Audio is: wma and mp3 maps can be static (image) Hyperlink format is href="imagelink:[login to view URL]" Places are displayed on a map which is movable and zoomable with drag and pinch Events are displayed in a calendar UI with at least a day view Guide document and HTML links are displayed in a control that is scrollable and zoomable for easy reading Places can be filtered from map based on criteria such as date in schedule etc... There are 2 modes to get to Guides: 1. Via map that shows countries and regions where guides are available 2. Via Search menu that gives options such as:Type of guide, language of guide, country, city and Guide name There is a configurarion menu for options There is a login screen for viewing guides private to the user. User can choose auto login for subsequent logins. A forgot password link is also available. It will be possible for the user to center the map at his current GPS location by clicking on a “My location” button or menu. In order to improve the responsiveness of the app, the guides will be cached and the guide ID can be used to reference it. The user has the option to turn off caching or to force a re download. Application should work in English, but be easily localized to other languages by simply changing a list of words/phrases. We plan to add these languages first: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and then other languages including Chinese and other of the most common languages. Let me know your capabilities and costs and timeframes in this area because if this is easy for you we may want you to add as many languages as possible as soon as possible. Where possible remember choices so that they become the new defaults A progress bar should be used for things that could take a long time (e.g. downloading data from the server) All lists should be sorted alphabetically, in some cases the option to sort chronologically should be available (e.g. places can be sorted both ways based on which event they are in) Ability to get walking or driving directions between two points on the map. Ability to ask for what is close by, based on a keyword and current location The places view will display a list of all places from the guide, those that have corresponding HTML or hyperlink associated with them will be marked. Clicking on any of the places will display the HTML or hyperlink associated with the place. It will also be possible to view the place info data for each place like: name, country, city, latitude, longitude etc… More information will be available later. Please indicate any features that cannot be implemented