BusPoll

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  The app!

Inspiration

We wanted a transit app that was actually useful for telling you when you should leave your house to catch the bus you need. No more need to text the bus or open up the website, you'll just get a notification for a time you set that shows the live bus schedule, allowing you to know when the bus is coming without you needed to do anything.

What it does

It currently does not do this. We were able to parse some of the Translink data and got the address of every single bus stop and were able to display it in a Google Maps view.

How we built it

Built in Android with Kotlin.

Challenges we ran into

We had a hard time using Translink's new GTFS transit information specification for fetching bus data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of getting the bus stop information all pinned properly on the app, it looks cool seeing where all the bus stops are.

What we learned

We learned we need to learn some more API formats apart from REST to make use of all the types of APIs out there.

What's next for BusPoll

Understand how GTFS works and get it working with the app so that we can get real-time bus arrival notifications.

Built With

• android
• google-maps
• gtfs
• kotlin