Home Tutor Discovery Android App with Demo Class Booking and Fee Comparison

Home Tutor Discovery is an Android app for a problem parents solve badly today: finding a home tutor through word of mouth, notice boards and coaching-class flyers — channels that reveal nothing about teaching quality or true monthly cost. A tutor charging ₹500 an hour sounds cheaper than one charging ₹600, but the real difference is ₹1,200 a month at 12 one-hour classes — a comparison nobody makes. This project puts tutor search, free demo-class booking and fee comparison in one place. Students filter tutors by subject, fee range and rating; each profile shows qualifications, experience, reviews and per-subject fees; and the comparison view normalizes up to 3 tutors to a monthly cost — the cheapest hourly fee cannot hide the most expensive month. Demo bookings capture subject, day, time slot and contact details, with booking history on-device. The build covers 5 app screens, 12 seeded tutor profiles across 9 subjects, and a booking flow on a 5-day slot window.

The app follows a simple marketplace flow: a student discovers tutors, shortlists by comparing real monthly costs, books a free demo class, and manages bookings — all inside 5 screens. Search and filters run against the local tutor data, booking writes to on-device storage, and the fee comparison computes monthly estimates from hourly fees with a fixed, documented rule: monthly = hourly fee × 12 one-hour classes. That single formula is the product's core insight — it turns a misleading unit (₹/hour) into the unit parents budget with (₹/month), and the demo applies it live in the comparison table. The demo build keeps data local so the whole flow works without a server, while the delivered project wires the same 5 screens to a REST backend with a real database and push notifications for booking confirmations.

1. The student opens the app and sees the tutor list with 12 seeded profiles, each showing rating, review count, starting fee per hour and area.
2. Subject chips (9 subjects), keyword search and top-rated/lowest-fee sorting narrow the list to relevant tutors.
3. Tapping a tutor opens the profile: qualifications, experience, per-subject fees, languages, reviews, and available demo days generated for the next 5 days.
4. The comparison tab lets the student select up to 3 tutors; the app renders a table of hourly fee, expected monthly cost (hourly × 12 classes), experience, reviews and demo availability.
5. Tapping Book Free Demo Class starts the 4-step flow: subject, day, time slot, then name and 10-digit mobile number with validation.
6. The summary screen shows the free 45-minute demo details; confirming saves the booking and shows a confirmation state.
7. All confirmed bookings appear under My Demos with status, and can be referenced when the tutor calls back.

Tech stack:

• Kotlin with Jetpack Compose UI
• Android SDK (API 26+, design target)
• Retrofit for REST API calls
• Room for on-device booking storage
• Firebase Authentication (phone)
• Firebase Cloud Messaging (booking alerts)
• MySQL backend with REST endpoints
• Google Maps SDK (area search, optional module)

The app's strongest capabilities are its honest fee comparison, its complete demo-class booking flow, and its filterable tutor discovery — the three things a parent actually does when hiring a tutor, rebuilt as software. The comparison view answers the question parents really ask — "what will this cost me per month?" — by normalizing every tutor to an expected monthly figure at 12 one-hour classes, a normalization rule designed during the build because hourly fees alone hide the real decision: a ₹100/hr gap reads as a ₹1,200/month gap once normalized. Booking mirrors how a real tutoring business runs: pick a subject, a day from a live 5-day rolling window, a time slot, and enter contact details, with every booking saved to a history screen. Discovery keeps it practical with 9 subject filters, keyword search across names, subjects and areas, and top-rated/lowest-fee sorting.

• [Tutor discovery with filters] Browse 12 seeded tutor profiles across 9 subjects with keyword search over names, subjects and areas, plus subject chips and top-rated / lowest-fee sorting.
• [Tutor profile pages] Each profile shows qualifications, years of experience, star rating with review count, per-subject fees, languages taught, area, and student reviews.
• [Free demo class booking] A 4-step flow — subject, day, time slot, contact details — with Indian mobile-number validation, a booking summary screen, and a confirmation state.
• [Booking history] Every confirmed demo booking is stored on-device and listed under My Demos with tutor, subject, slot and contact details.
• [Three-tutor fee comparison] Select up to 3 tutors to compare fee per hour, expected monthly cost, experience, review count and demo availability in one table, with the lowest monthly cost highlighted.
• [Monthly cost normalization] Hourly fees are converted to an expected monthly figure at 12 one-hour classes, so a ₹100/hr gap reads as the ₹1,200/month difference parents actually pay.
• [Live 5-day slot window] Demo dates are generated fresh for the next 5 days, so the booking calendar never shows stale dates.

• Complete Android source code (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, 5 screens)
• Backend REST API with database schema and setup guide
• Seeded tutor data (12 profiles, 9 subjects) with realistic Indian names, fees and areas
• Demo booking flow with validation and booking history
• Fee comparison module with monthly normalization logic
• Project report PDF (background, methodology, architecture, screens)
• PPT presentation for final review
• Viva Q&A preparation document (Android components, API design, booking state management)