PickUp

Main screen
Seeing an event on the map

Inspiration

Inspired by pickup sports and a desire to have an easy interface to see where games may be.

What it does

Allows people to start 'events' on a map which will be visible to the other users of the app. The other users can then join the 'lobby' of the first users event, showing the other users that two people are currently at the event

How I built it

Built with android studio in Java. Frontend uses the convenient integration that google maps has with android for a graphical display for clients while the server uses the Radar.io API to manage geofences and events.

Challenges I ran into

Using the server and connecting the app to a central source of information proved to be very difficult, especially when considering having to learn to use a new API at the same time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Using Google Maps API to represent our data
Using radar.io to manage events in the backend

What I learned

How difficult it is to create a server for our specific purposes
Importance of testing and doing it as you go
Importance of slowly connecting the front and back end instead of doing it only when both are complete ## What's next for PickUp Billion dollars.

Built With

Submitted to

Hack the Valley 4

Created by

Worked mostly on front end elements and most of the android parts of the project. It was my first time working with a server which definitely was a challenge

Nikola Marunic
I aided in the development of the backend Java server and helped integrate the server API calls into the client code. This was my first time working with socket programming and I was exposed to a whole new perspective on server-client interactions.

Saqib Ali
I worked on the front-end part of the project. It was my first time working with the Google Maps API. The API was much easier to implement than I expected due to the simplicity of the documentation.

Faaris Ali
I worked on the back-end, and it being harder than I thought, I learned a lot about TCP, HTTP, and server-client models.

Leonid Nediak

Updates

Nikola Marunic started this project — Feb 16, 2020 10:04 AM EST

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