The Third Assignment: mobile web application
In this week, we started coding our third assignment. 24 hours in a day becomes not enough again...
Our idea is to support chat with people based on geolocation. Actually this idea comes from some popular apps which using geolocation as the main connection among people. Not like traditional chatting apps which shows a list of friends, it will show all the nearby people in a defined region based on the google map. So people can chat with people nearby. Since people may have more information to talk with people nearby, this app can provide a platform for people to chat.
Since this app only have two more weeks to develop, we started very fast and tried to do work more efficiently. We met every evening and finished to some basic key functions. In the processing of developing this app, we really learn a lot of stuffs about mobile computing. First is what kind of app should be built on mobile? This app must need some feature based on mobile device. Also it is my first time to use mobile UI. It is really cool since we can use some easy API to build a nice looking user interface. Moreover, I implemented a geometry algorithm to support the location detecting. It is the first time to use algorithm in school software developing. A good algorithm really can solve problem easily.
We still have a lot of tasks to do. And other modules assignment, quiz, midterm all come. Ah, go working hard. What can not kill me makes me stronger.
That's a pretty interesting app idea. Maybe if you had a "let's meet up" function that looks for people within say a 500m radius and allows you to promptly arrange meetups, it would be even cooler. :D Just something that came off the top of my head because sometimes I'm somewhere with too much time to burn (e.g. wife doing a facial) and it's cool to see if there's anyone nearby for a cuppa.
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