Consilia

Welcome Screen
Home Screen
Transportation Selection Screen
Voting Screen
Results Screen

Inspiration

We have all had difficulty deciding with friends where to hang out and have fun, so we developed a mobile app to search for the best places to go eat, have fun, and more.

What we learned

We learned a lot about nurturing a small idea into a full functioning project. A major technical skill that we struggled over and eventually figured out was how to connect our back-end to the front-end of the project through HTTP requests to the API we created.

How we built the project

We started by splitting off into two groups, one for the back-end and one for the front-end. The back-end was developed using C# and ASP.net to create an API for the database which used cockroach db. We then hosted the back-end on Google Cloud using Kubernetes and docker with Cloudflare as the DNS service to do HTTP Requests. Finally, we used the Google Places API to get location data of cool places in town near us. The front-end was created specifically for mobile applications and it was built using React Native with HTML/CSS. We then connected these using the API we created to HTTP request our database. Finally, we created a website to advertise our application using GoDaddy.

Challenges Faced

We had a lot difficulty implementing the Tinder swipe feature for React Native. There were also many bugs that we had to address quickly when connecting the to meet our deadlines.