Inspiration
There is not exactly this type of app before. App is for both contractor and house owner Basically building house is work each person in the world. Everyone want his/her house best because we construct house once in our life. Everyone plain for this job, give max time during construction even he/she has or not. That's why I would like to see an app (I'm working on it...) which give us 99% planning, estimation, and save our time.
What it does
It is Thaikadar mobile application(In Urdu "Thaikadar" word is used for Contractor) I'm working on this project, where people can see different models of houses with complete details.
- Everyone can see it, different models of houses for his/her plot with respect to dimensions.
- After selecting model, you can move on, there you will see all contractors with estimations, (Who will build this in how much budget). You can also see the budget of single storey and double also.
- After selecting comfortable contractor you will able to mange your order weather you wanna give contract with material or without material. (Estimation will be there also for both) .
- If you select the contract with material you will able to manage material of your house on your own. if you have not enough budget you can choose low material. its your own choice.
After that you can submit order. Contractor will accept/ cancel your order on the basis of any appropriate reason. you will be notify about that.
Now its contractor penal, where if he will accept your proposal/order. he will inform you when he will start or about further discussions.
May he has started the work. He will have to update his/her client on daily basis . There is report generating activity where contractor will generate report of the day with images of each material, labor, and much more. Report is just like that. no of labor | per labor person cost | total cost(auto) | pictures
There are 16 to 20 entries like above for different things like cement, sand, mason etc...
- after generating this report User will able to see this report... with total cost of the day with pictures. This thing will make sure about selected material and working perfectly.
At the end of construction User will end it and both verify that work is performed perfectly.
Contractor penal has 5 tabs, 1 home page, 2 running contracts, 3 model of houses (Thaikadar can add new models which he build them). 4 labor where he can keep record (contact details) of his labor of different types like painter, mason, electricians etc.
How we built it
Its android application, I'm working on it using android studio with latest version of SDK. I'm using java language in backend and xml for front end.
Challenges we ran into
There are hundred of challenges which I face during development like in notification, and front end. But challenges take our life to the success. That's why I did it before stopping. I helped a lot from google , friends. But by the Grace of God. I have build this.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
By the Grace of God and prayers of my parents I have built which I want. I did this but I'm very thankful to my family members who appreciate me and encourage me to keep it up. Yea Now I'm feeling proud because I have got the thing which I want.
What we learned
Specially I have learnt hardworking from this project. Because when I was working on it I would like to take rest even a day. But when I thanked about my goal, this thing keep me awake to make progress onwards. Also I have leant a lot of things in technology which I don't know before.
What's next for Thaikadar(House contractor app)
Yea my goal is not ending here, I would like to launch it and will upgrade it after my master's degree. I wanna go abroad for master in Artificial intelligence. After do that I will add some pre planed features in it. Hope after adding them this will become more powerful.