Duck Hunt

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  Several spots in the lower mainland.

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  Pathings toward a sighting spot.

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  More spots around the user.

Inspiration

We wanted to practise working with APIs and data retrieval. We drew inspiration from the Transit app as it incorporates a list and a map very well.

What it does

This app is meant to help you keep track of where you have seen ducks and where you can go to potentially see ducks. You can click on the list to get directions to the clicked duck.

How we built it

We used Android Studio, Kotlin and the google maps api to make the app. We specifically used the maps sdk for geo-location, places api for details of specific places, and directions api for directions to clicked places.

Challenges we ran into

We had performance problems because we were making too many calls to the api and struggled to keep the interface updating in real time.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were happy that we were able to process the mass amount of information needed to make this happen.

What we learned

We learned about differents kinds of APIs and their usefulness to our project.

What's next for Duck Hunt

We wish we had more time to polish it and make it more responsive but are happy with the result regardless.

Assets Used

Assets Ducky https://4vector.com/i/free-vector-ducky-clip-art_118391_Ducky_clip_art_hight.png Circle Duck Icon https://www.emojimeanings.org/duck/ Transit icon https://cascadeseasttransit.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/transit-app-gray.png

Resources Used

Getting names of nearby places https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/search Google Maps Directions API (route from 1 lat,lng to another) https://medium.com/android-news/google-maps-directions-api-5b2e11dee9b0 Kotlin Implementation: https://lwgmnz.me/2018/09/20/google-maps-and-directions-api-using-kotlin/

Built With

• android
• directions-api
• google-maps
• kotlin
• places-api