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Map displaying location input by remote user about free donuts on campus
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Error alert after the input was not valid
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The initial login screen of the app
Inspiration
Tired of constantly despairing over missing those intriguing clubs events and their free pizza, because of losing posters, finding out too late, etc; we decided to try create an easy and convenient method for students to crowdsource and populate a map where they can post a picture of an event as they see it with an image and location tag, which other students can then see in real time.
What it does
It implements a Google Maps interface showing the University campus along with the real-time location of the user, after a University email-based login to ensure authenticity of its user base. The user has the option of opening their camera and posting a picture of an event, or by default, scrolling through the map and viewing other people's posted events to see if any interests them.
How we built it
We made use of MITs App Inventor Code Block system to help create an iOS App which made use of a spreadsheet database to constantly store and update the Event locations and details, from which, we output event markers onto the map.
Challenges we ran into
While initially trying to implement our idea in Android Studio, we came across many IDE challenges which we managed to avoid by using App Inventor to create a basic implementation of it. But while using it, the bare simplicity cut down how much we could do with our application, as we had initially planned on incorporating a trained Google Assistant model to search for the nearest located free item of the type the user wants (say food, or stationary, etc)
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to implement a functional model of our idea and generate a database for storing the different locations and inputs that different users would input.
What we learned
We were able to learn mobile app development from scratch and implement a Google Maps API, along with creating multiple screens to incorporate a social space.
What's next for UTDyeets
Speech Recognition! Because who types anymore, right?
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