Almost There!

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Almost There!

An app to notify you when you're almost at your bus stop, just in case you weren't paying attention.

C'mon, we've all done it - in this bustling day and age, it's hard to peel our eyes away from our screens. For the Algonquin College Inaugural Hackathon, I decided to solve one of my own problems - on multiple occasions, I've missed my bus stop after becoming too engrossed with my device. Almost There! allows the user to pick their Ottawa bus stop and schedule a notification that triggers as the bus approaches your final destination.

Using proximity alerts, the application will notify the user once they penetrate a 75 metre radius around the bus stop. The phone will vibrate for 5 seconds and trigger toast notifications to ensure that you're on the ball and off the bus.

Once the user's bus destination is selected and confirmed, the app minimizes and runs in the background until the minimum radius is breached. That way, you can continue your second run-through of Buffy the Vampire Slayer without interruption.

Built With

• java