SmaartFriendFinder is an Android app that allows users to find and connect with friends nearby. The app has the following key features:
1. Users can see friends and other users on a map within their discovery range and send private messages.
2. The discovery list displays contacts and other users nearby in or out of the user's contact list.
3. Users can change their status, visibility range, and connect with friends via SMS, phone, or email directly from their profile.
4. Additional features include color themes, map controls, and inviting friends without the app to download it.
2. Table of Contents
Getting Started .........................................................................3
Settings and Tools.................................................................... 5
Map ..........................................................................................5
Status......................................................................................10
Using Peer2Peer ....................................................................12
Map Options ...........................................................................15
Invite Friends ..........................................................................18
Colour Themes ...................................................................... 22
Ping Messages to SmaartFriendFinder Users .......................24
Connect with friend by SMS, Phone Call or E-mail ................27
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3. Getting Started
Click “I Agree” to continue.
Clicking “I Disagree” will exit from the application.
Enter your nickname. Your nickname can be
anything you like. Does not matter if it has
already been used. The nickname is the only
mandatory information needed.
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4. Enter your phone number and email address if
you wish..
Invite a friend to join. This can be done by
SMS, Email, Twitter or Facebook.
Click 'Done' you will be live. Your online profile
will show the information you entered.
At this point, you are online and active.
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5. Login to your FaceBook account from directly
inside Smaart-friend-finder.
Use your FaceBook id (page) to create your
own profile and keep it updated.
Settings and Tools
Map
When you press the Map button at the top,
you will find friends and other people who are
nearby (within your discovery range).
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6. To change your discovery range, click the “Me” tab.
Slide the slider to set “My Visibility”. This will set the range
that others will be able see you. For example, when it is
set to 10 km, people within 10 km of you will be able to
see you on the map and in the Discovery List. The
“Looking for friends” feature, allows you to find friends
around your current location at a defined radius, or you
can set a different location to see if you find friends
there… for example, are any of your friends at the coffee
shop you plan to go to.
By default values are worldwide. You can change them at
any time. Slide the bar to select the value you would like.
The Discovery List contains a list of friends and other people that are
nearby (within your discovery range)
“People you may know” are your people that exist in your phone's contact
manager. When you first start SmaartFriendFinder all your contacts in your
contact manager get “proximity enabled” so that if they also have
SmaartFriendFinder installed (and are online) you can find them on the
map, and they can find you on their map. People that are in your contact
list, go to the top of the Discovery list and are shown with a Green Border
for easy identification.“Others” are people who are also using
SmaartFriendFinder, and happen to be nearby, (within the Discovery Range
you previously set). “Others” are listed after your friends, and are shown in
Blue. By clicking on a user, you will see the full profile of that particular user.
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7. The discovery list is dynamic, which means
that as people go out of the discovery range,
they will be dropped from the Discovery List.
To keep “Others” on a permanent basis, you
must save them to your smartphone's
contacts.
Let's add Mike Levashov to system contacts
to make him a permanent friend in
SmaartFriendFinder (when he is in Discovery
range, he will appear in Green). In the list of
users click on Mike and get his profile view.
Open the System Menu on your phone or
Android device and you will see the option
“Save to contacts”. Click on it.
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8. At this point you should see the “Saved”
notification for a short period of time and then
Mike's entry will become “green”
Status
My Status - Online, Visible to friends, Invisible, Offline.
Your status determines if and how people will find you,
and you them.
Online – friends and people can find you and you can
find them.
Offline – friends and people cannot find you, and you
cannot find them.
Invisible – You can find friends and people, but they
cannot find you.
Visible to Friends – Only friends can find you, but you
can find both friends and other people.
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9. .
Let's choose Visible to friends only. Your
status changes to Visible to friends only and a
blue F appears, see screenshot below
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10. Using Peer2Peer
If cell network services and WiFi network is not available and
your phone supports this feature, you can use
SmaartFriendFinder in peer-to-peer mode (also known as WiFi
Direct).
This allows you to discovering friends and others that are close
to you using the peer to peer (no network). Range is limited…
usually no more than 100m, depending on the model of the
phone. NOTE: Some phones do not support this mode.
To set p2P, Open system menu. Click on Settings item. You will
see settings view as on the screenshot below.
Click on Wi-Fi direct connection and select
return.
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11. Some features are not available in p2p
mode – for instance MAP.
Map Options
Zooming (in/out/zoom
to fit) in the map mode
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12. Zoom to fit
Map Layers
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13. Invite frieneds
You cannot find friends that do not use
SmaartFriendFinder. So invite them to
install SmaartFriendFinder too!
For SMS – Press SMS button
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14. For Email – Press Email button.
For Twitter – Press the Twitter
button.
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15. For Facebook – press the
facebook button
Colour Themes
When you select your gender in
the wizard step 1, the colour
changes automatically –
M = Blue, F = Pink
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16. The program will change to
the appropriate colour.
Ping Messages to
SmaartFriendFinder Users
A ping message is completely private
message between friends or others. It
does not go through your provider. It is
limited to 140 characters.
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17. Enter your message and click
'send' button
When you receive a new message
you will see the notification bar
change to something like the
following:
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18. Drag down a notification bar to look
at the incoming message. Clicking
on it will open the reply view
Connect with friend by SMS,
Phone Call or E-mail
Your phone is a smartphone with
many ways to communicate…
SmaartFriendFinder let's you use
them normally.
Click on SMS picture will open
SMS send view.
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19. Clicking on phone icon will open
call view. Clicking on e-mail icon
will open e-mail send view.
SmaartFriendFinder let's you use
your smartphone exactly as it was
meant to be used.
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