A lost and found mobile application for the third year dissertation project at the University of Warwick. It mainly provides these extra features compared to existing applications:

• Comprehensive item details, including images, category and location
• Searching items that allows users to see a list of matching items
• The images of the items are used for comparison through a neural network model

• User account creation with university emails
• Uploading items with comprehensive details
• After reporting a lost item, users can search for similar found items with it
• Claim an item and the found user can approve or ignore claims
• Image recognition is used for the general scoring algorithm to compare two items
• Chat with each other in app and receive push notifications
• Receive push notifications when there is a change to the status of user's items
• A UI following usabilityand accessibility principles
• Admin system to report another user, or report an issue in the app

This is an app mainly developed for Android devices, so it can be run in an emulator in Android Studio with the following steps:

1. Open the project in Android Studio
2. Perform a Gradle sync
3. Run on the following emulator:

Android Studio version: Android Studio Ladybug Feature Drop | 2-24.2.2

Emulator: Medium Phone API 35

Posting a new item	Searching for items	Item comparisons

Include the SENDER_EMAIL, SENDER_PASSWORD, MAPS_API_KEY, the google-services.json and the service-account.json for the full functionality.