saarthak08 / location-tracker

An android app in which faculties can share their realtime location with students which students can view & can also find the approximate distance between them.

Location-Tracker

An android application which I built in a hackathon event 'HackAMU' in my college annual fest 'ZARF'.

Features:

• Login/ Signup as a student.
• Chat with any teacher as a student.
• Get any teacher's location if he or she has enabled it.
• Student can see the distance between him/her & the teacher if he/she has made location visible.
• Login/ Signup as faculty/teacher.
• Chat with any student as a teacher/faculty.
• Enable/Hide your location if you are a faculty/teacher.
• Offline Login/SignUp system implemented via Room Database.
• Push notifications (without Firebase i.e. manual notifications) on several events like message recieved, self location shared or location shared by any faculty/teacher.

Libraries Used:

• Material Dialogs
• Firebase & its Services
• Google Play Services
• Android Architecture Components
• Dagger-2
• Room
• zoomage

Note:

• In order to build/run this application, you need to add your 'google-services.json' file in the app folder.
• This app has two faces, one for students & one for faculty. If you want to test all the functionalities, then two android mobile phones with two different emails are required at the same time. One for the student & another for the faculty. After this, start location sharing with the device signed up as faculty, the other device will be automatically notified & can start tracking faculty. Chat services can also be tested.
• Location & distance may not be too accurate as it depends on several factors like internet connection speed, location mode etc. Accuracy improves by time.

Debug APK Link:

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=16WCOlxEvX_tteG0toMJ1gxlzt747BhQY

Screenshots:

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location-tracker's Issues

Chat Message Notification appearing repeatedly

After removing app from recent apps if the chat activity is previously opened, chat notification still appears even if there isn't any message from any other user.

Unique id for each user

There should be a unique id for each user in the firebase database which isn't currently implemented yet. Now, users can have same id.

App Crashing on opening Chat Activity From Activity Login

App is crashing when Logged in as a faculty and opened ChatActivity of any user.

'Read' TextView in ChatActivity updates after resuming activity.

'Read' TextView is not updating at the same time when message is read by the reciever. It gets update after going back to MainActivity & again going to ChatActivity i.e. after refreshing or resuming it.