ByteHacks2020 Submission: Underground Railroad App

The Underground Railroad helped over 100,000 slaves escape to freedom

Inspiration

We were inspired by the valiant and selfless efforts of all those helping contrabands escape from slavery. With no regard for their own lives, they helped others because they knew it was right. We wanted to make this project to pay tribute someow to those brave souls.

What it does

Provides an easy central communication and coordination center for the Underground Railroad

How I built it

Using android studio (java) and scaledrone

Challenges I ran into

The scaledrone chat was very difficult to implement, and there were numerous other bugs along the way that cause large problems and over 1,000 errors.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We finally managed to pull through with our chat part and also managed to coordinate everything such that it ran smoothly with no errors

What I learned

We learned a LOT about Android Studio, as none of us had used it for more than a day or two before the hackathon. Now, we are comfortable building a lot of applications, tools, and implementing navigation using Android Studio.

What's next for ByteHacks2020 Submission: Underground Railroad App

Additional Notes:

Instructions: Choose your role, and create an account or sign in if you have one. From your homepage, you can navigate anywhere you might need to assist a contraband. Many helping resources are available including maps, messaging, location tracking, warrants, and much much more. At each stage of the program after login, you are allowed to go to the homepage or logout. The app is quite self explanatory, and shows explanatory text to help anybody who is unsure of what to do.

Notes: The realtime chat part of this app works with any other person anywhere on the internet who has the correct ID code.

The list of what supplies are available, the list of reservations, map for conductor, the certificates, and conductor names are auto generated and not kept in a server. We did not have enough time to look into solutions to these issues and therefore made it as close to the final product as possible - which we believe is quite close given our time limit.

If you register, the program does not keep your information.

To login, use Username: "Username" and password: "password" without the quotes for any type of account

The chat uses a real-time back end of scaledrone, where you can create an account and messaging channel for free.

This project is only meant for submission to ByteHacks 2020, and has been created solely for that purpose.