ImmiMeet

Immimeet

Project for Table 9 of the New York City 2017 I Stand With Immigrants Hackathon.

Mission:

This app allows for users based outside the United States to "discover" Americans who can connect with them. This also works vice versa, as in Americans can "discover" those wishing to immigrate to this country.

Check out our info slide deck here!

This app utilizes a chat feature that auto-translates the languages communicated into the native language of the immigrant using Google's translate API.

As of now, there are 100 fake User accounts stored within a JSON dictionary.

Thanks

We would like to personally thank each and every person, especially those who are members of the immigrant community here in New York City, who made this event possible.

Contributors (pictured from left to right): Michael "Lori" Lorimer, Zak Aroui, Ana Ma, Liam Kane, Marty Avedon, Chris Lee, Vic Zhong, Max Rosado

Built With

Submitted to

I STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS Hackathon

Created by

I was the project manager and an iOS developer for the chat feature using PubNub's API.

Ana Ma
I am the original idea founder and developer of the chat feature on our iOS app, using PubNub's API and the Chat SDK which uses Firebase API in the backend.

Zakaria Aroui
I code for fun and to make others have fun. I am passionate about cool techs and projects.
I worked on the Firebase API to create a database. I also helped during the idea process and wire framing.

Max Rosado
I worked on the user story and initial pitch, some models for chats, and networking and translation methods.

Victor Zhong
I designed the Users database used in this app. It was made with Python 3 and SQLite, then later converted into JSON format so that the other developers using Swift could import the data and use it in the app. The database was seeded with 100 Users, made with randomly generated data by importing the Pip3 Faker module and the random module, included in Python library. The randomly generated data was created with a Python file written by me that generated hundreds of SQL queries and inserted this data into the .db file (that was later converted to a csv, then JSON) with one keystroke.

I also formatted much of the README.md file.

Michael Lorimer
I designed the user flow, laid out the screens, added the icons, picked the fonts, and coded up and styled the tab bar, animations, and the profile screen.

Marty Hernandez Avedon
Liam Kane
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Updates

Liam Kane posted an update — Jul 15, 2017 06:51 PM EDT

I coordinated the developers and lead the integrations of the separate features into the project. I built the underlying UI for the app, working closely with the design lead to create an intuitive UX/UI.

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Victor Zhong posted an update — Jul 15, 2017 05:50 PM EDT

Check out our story here! https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Nnjc_kECfNs9nZO-cJGBsRTnkdkEXmh70BMlbWTAfks/edit?usp=sharing

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Ana Ma started this project — Jul 15, 2017 11:26 AM EDT

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