HyGPS

HyGPS is a hygiene-based app that locates affordable and essential hygienic products, provides a bathroom rater website, and includes an on-campus free menstrual product locator.

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Inspiration

We wanted to create an app that promotes gender inclusivity., and since our separate ideas aligned with the topic of hygiene, we pursued this inclusivity aspect to fulfill our main goal.

What it does

HyGPS allows users to filter and locate hygienic products at CVS, Target, and Walmart, read bathroom reviews, and direct them to free menstrual products on-campus. Pressing "Hygiene" allows user to choose what type of product they are looking for. "Filter" allows the user to rearrange the order of displayed items by price, best seller, or star ratings. Users can also use the plus or minus buttons to add or subtract items and the shopping cart icon displays what they have currently added. This will correlate to the "Map" screen, which lists the items you are looking for on the location markers at various stores. The routes highlighted green are where you will find your items.

How we built it

We used MIT-App Inventor since the majority of us are beginners to programming. We also chose this application because it allows us to link more complex code from other team members creating a website. Most of our code came from the result of self teaching.

Challenges we ran into

-Collaborating with variety of background coding knowledge -Knowing how to combine MIT-App Inventor with our website -Code was deleted at 8 PM, had to be recreated -Could not code on the same file together -Lines connecting user to stores would spontaneously disappear -Shopping List variable duplicating its value for each use -Having to press "Map" multiple times for the location markers to function as intended

Accomplishments that we're proud of

-Implementing a working GPS without prior knowledge -Taught ourselves programming topics such as functions, variables across classes, lists, and databases -Learning to link specific existing issues to broader, real-world solutions.

What we learned

-How to use variables across multiple classes / screens -General use and structure of functions / procedures -How to combine several different coding skill levels -How to use mariadb

What's next for HyGPS

-Adding more stores, items, filters, and hygiene products to the app -Calculating more accurate routes based on the user's location -Gathering more reviews from users for more accurate ratings

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