The main public Intent that OpenTable exposes is the RESERVE Intent, which lets you make a reservation at a specific restaurant and optionally specify the date, time, and party size. One of the first steps is to design your Intent interface, or API. Here's how we exploited them to compose a new user experience from parts each of us have. Intents are perhaps one of Android's coolest, most unique, and under-appreciated features. We were able to achieve this deep integration between our applications by using Android's Intent mechanism. This is a situation where everyone wins - OpenTable gets more traffic, WHERE and GoodFood gain functionality to make their applications stickier, and users benefit because they can make reservations with only a few taps of a finger. We saw an opportunity to enable WHERE and GoodFood users to make reservations on OpenTable easily and seamlessly. OpenTable, uLocate, and Mob.ly worked together to create a great user experience on Android. Written in collaboration with Michael Burton, Mob.ly Ivan Mitrovic, uLocate and Josh Garnier, OpenTable.
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