#CityMatrp
##Brief
CityMatrp is a Mobile Route Management System aiming to avail information about matatus, connections, routes, online route maps for free. Web Presence
CityMatrp users are able to know where to find the bus stations to their various destinations and get alerts from respective personnel in charge of the various. City council officials, traffic police and drivers are empowered since they can use the mobile app to communicate with the public. Users of the application can share their frustrations, report unlawful acts and post traffic alerts on the application’s forum or the sms service.
##Solution A mobile app running on largely used platform, aiming to avail information about matatus, connections, routes, online route maps and for free, could effectively solve this problem. City council officials, traffic police and drivers are empowered since they can use the app to communicate with the public from anywhere. All users of the application can share their frustrations, report unlawful acts and post traffic alerts on the app’s forum.
##WHY I AM SHARING This is a project I did in the second year of my degree program. It has been living on my laptop since then, ashamed, I have decided to share it with the community. The project was done in Android programming language, new developers can learn the following concepts by look into the code:
- Android app connect to MYSQL DB
- Populate android spinners by fetching data from remote DB
- Android Async background processes
- Android Basic Map Google V2 (You should switch to latest Google Maps API)
- Android Web View
- Actually you will learn quite alot ;)
##Screenshots
Matatu route search
Route director login
administrator dashboard
##Finally Let's Talk The aim of the project was accomplished and a Mobile Route Management System aiming to avail information about matatus, connections, routes, online route maps and for free developed. However all the work done for this project hardly solve major issues with matatus in the city, and much further work can be done on this project. Anyone interested to continue working on this can contact me for further questions.
#THANK YOU