mepowerleo10/BusPoint

An Android app to find the nearest bus stops for public transportation services in Tanzania (Daladala) # BusPoint An Android app to find the nearest bus stops for public transportation services in Tanzania (Daladala) ## Architecture The application has several components interacting to provide reliable services: - MapBox API provides Tiling, Rendering, Matrix and Navigation Services - Google Places API provides location search services (I hope to build a custom search service in the future) - OSM Overpass API to search for nearest nodes on the map - Firebase Authentication handles user accounts and emailing services ## Development Environment - Run and Tested on Android 8 - Android Studio on Linux ## Running - Open the project in Android Studio, the dependencies will be fetched automatically by gradle. - Run the appliction ## Limitations - The application was made with the city of Dodoma as the case study - Searching for areas out of bound might yield unresonable and unexpected results - Endpoints to the server might be unreachable