MapScribe

Inspiration

One of our team's goal this year is to go out and explore the city. One of the best ways to do that is by going on walks and following new paths until you find something amazing. And to solidify those moments, we added a feature for journaling. Here, you can write all about your experiences and new discoveries, both in the city and in yourself.

What it does

Tracks your location as you walk through the city. You can also write journal entries based on things you find on you walk, new things about yourself you've discovered, and more.

How we built it

We build the app using Android Studio. We programmed it in Java and used Room Persistence Library for Android for our journal database. With the use of Google's Maps SDK for Android API, we implemented the map and retrieved the user's current location.

Challenges we ran into

We're both new to Android Studio and app development in general
Understanding the APIs and properly integrating them to get the user's current location
Translating the many resources written in Kotlin to Java so we could use them