Kedi1997 / SmartParking

An Android app that fetches data from Melbourne Open Data and present empty car park space for a user

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Introduction

This is an Android app that aims to help a user to find an empty car park spot in Melbourne. The data are provided by Melbourne Open Data.

Getting started

Prerequisites

• The phone requires a GPS function, it has to be run in a real physical phone instead of an emulator.

• The app runs on Android API 29, the version of Android Studio is 3.5.1

• A working email is required to use the full function. When registering, a verification email will be sent and it should be approved.

Installing

• Install Android Studio is 3.5.1 and run.

Features

Login/Logout/Register

• The user can use login to explore full functions that provided by the app.

Car park spots searching map/list

• The map and list view in the main page list out all available empty spots that are in Melbourne.

Timer alarm

• Alarm gives options for user to type in his/her start time and end time of his/her parking period. A default parking location will be given based on the parking spot that he/she choose, also allows change manually. Once the alarm has been set, it will upload to cloud.

History profile

• This page shows all history parking recording of the logged in user, the record is created by Timer alarm page.

Information page

• List out some useful information for the user. The user can call for help when press the phone call button or can go to website directly through ‘Further information’.

Authors

1: Shorye Chopra

2: Ganeshr Ravisankar

3: Dongsheng Jiang

4: Jiaqi Li

5: Kedi Peng