The festival feed, which works much like a Facebook timeline. Auto-generated, it shows live posts from the Brisbane Festival Facebook and Twitter pages, photos from the gallery, displays Facebook friends’ check ins at festival events and events taking place on the day. It also recommends matching hotels and restaurants to users.

A dynamic map that indicates all the festival locations across the city, as well as partner hotels and restaurants. It lets users enter their own location to find out what is nearby, and lets them search the map by date, to see what is happening where on what day. Proximity alerts notified users located near a venue when a certain performance might start. This feature utilised Google Maps and had custom overlays, balloons and on-click functionality as well as custom overlay filtering ie. the ability to filter visible overlays for hotels, venues & restaurants. 

The app had a custom built check in feature that gives users the opportunity to directly check in to Brisbane Festival venues and events and share it on Facebook to connect with their friends.

An integrated QR code reader that allow users to scan QR codes positioned throughout the city to get a sneak peek of what is happening at specific locations during the festival. This feature used a 3rd party QR code scanner library that worked with the apps camera system.

A custom built photo capture and blending tool that lets users take photos of themselves and their festival experience and apply a blend mode that creates a multiple exposure photo in the style of this year’s festival branding. This feature required the implementation of a camera system from the ground up and implementing blending techniques such as that used in Adobe Photoshop eg. Multiply, Opacity, Screen.

Users can then share the image on the online gallery or via Instagram and Facebook.