Inspiration
Idea of creating a real life mini-map for games such as assassins or capture the flag
What it does
The app allows you to see the location of others using the app in a short radius distance (111m), it could be used to keep track of friends, originally we were going to continue with this for use in games like capture the flag or assassins as a local mini-map of an area.
How I built it
We used Android-Studio to build a program to open google maps on an android device, then used eclipse and the java language to build a program to pull in location (latitude and longitude), timestamp and IP addresses, place those in an Array list and push them back to the phone to update the map with phones in the accepted radius.
Challenges I ran into
Getting Android to link to the server through the schools firewall. Getting current location data from the phone to the server in order to build locations.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Getting it to update locations on a map on android device
What I learned
How to code maps for androids
NEXT TIME ON: Game of Phones!!!
WHAT KEEPS BREAKING THE CODE? WAS GOOGLE HELPING ALL ALONG? WILL MAP.JAVA EVER REACH THE SERVER?? FIND OUT IN EPISODE 2: THE GREAT CALL OF CHINA
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