Parkly

Inspiration

At the end of a long Friday night brainstorming session, we decided on an app to help people find parking in NYC. Many of us have had the experience of looking for parking longer than it took to drive to the destination! We believe an app like Parkly can help with sustainability by have cars idle for less time.

What it does

This app is designed to find parking either on the street or garage. One has to choose where one wants to park. If one decides to park in the garage, it will ask for the price range and time one wanted to park. Based on user input, it will recommend the user nearby parking garages.

If the user selects to park in public on the street, it will take the user to the maps showing the highest chances of finding a parking space to the lowest chances of finding the parking space depending on the traffic of the specific area on the map. The app is also intended to update the real-time parking spot finder. In that case, the user can see if there is any parking spot available on the street via accessing public CCTV cameras or by live satellite.

How we built it

The app was built entirely in Java. It utilizes a branching menu which calls different methods depending on user input. Each of us wrote 1-2 methods which implement a GUI to prompt the user for input. We also used Adobe Illustrator for the app's logo and interface design.

Challenges we ran into

We often had to scale back the scope of the project to accommodate the time allowed. We were unable to implement the Google Maps API so instead we hard-coded images into the program to give an example of what a result would look like when the app is fully complete.