Pioneer

Architecture

Inspiration

Social Media apps in today's generation encourage others to share their fun experiences, but none incentivize their users to venture outdoors and explore the world. An app to share user experiences while traveling can inspire others to go out more, and make our generation true pioneers.

What it does

The app functions as a cross-platform mobile application, with 4 main pages (Explore, Profile, Camera, and Gallery) allowing the user to view, create, and like posts on user profiles. Google Vision and Compute camera features allow users to verify their images at specified landmarks, and lets them share their exact location at the time of the image.

How we built it

The app was built as a full-stack application, with React Native allowing for users on any device to access the application and share their images. Google Vision API and Landmark Detection lets the saved camera photos be viewed in the user's gallery, and able to be posted on a Profile page.

Challenges we ran into

Members of our team were new to the React Native framework, so learning and developing methods for it was a challenge. Photo uploading and photo management was definitely a difficult part as most http requests can't send that large of a payload.