Gopool is an open source, cloud-based, mobile-ready application for carpooling. Powered by JAVA and Firebase. Made for my final year project to showcase the technology stack. The carpooling mobile applciation provides a platform to car share. The user and vehicle registration details are stored via Firebase. Users can login and create/ send booking requests to other users on the app. Payments can be made via a sandbox payment system. The user interface designed in XML is friendly and can be adapted to user requirments
- Same gender carpooling
- Payment intergration via Braintree
- Book and search for ride
- Edit profile activity
- Leaderboards
- Realtime Notifications
- User reviews
The direct APK can be downloaded from here: APK DOWNLOAD
This project is meant to be built using Android Studio. It can also be built from the gradle command line.
1 Check out the source code:
$ git clone https://github.com/DrExpresso/Gopool.git2 Open Android Studio and choose Open an Existing Android Studio Project
3 Choose final.
4 Click the Run button.
Current configuration that is required to make the app work:
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Google Maps API key (AndroidManifest.xml) - Must setup account and add to project https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/
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Firebase (build.gradle) - Must create firebase project and bind the project name and files, guide can be found here. **NOTE: Firebase messaging service also requried. Setup can be found here
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Braintree (build.gradle) - Must configure application details guide can be found here. **NOTE: To use the payment system, web hosting is required. This can be done using XAMP or heroku. Guide for heroku here. Following same procedure and edit the put the deployed heroku app URL in place of the localhost.
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