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Jerry07

Jerry07

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Hello..

I have a big problem can you help me?

Now i’m do a project for my final year project at my university, my project is track location bus within smartphone with another smartphone and count what a left time arrival if bus start from bus stop A to bus stop B. Just track only one bus at one route. My objective build this application to help a student that waiting the bus at bus stop can use their smartphone to check bus location and know how many minutes again bus will be arrival at bus stop B.How can I show this all on maps and implement in android. And how can I create my own university maps,use what tools or software? Please help me how to do this..show it to me if you have some tutorial and exactly code that can I learn from that. Thanks you
 
How long have you got to do this, and what is your current level of knowledge regarding Java programming, and the Android development platform?
 
@LV426 i just have 1 month to do this.. i'm also had taken java programming class but not as expert...in android development,this is my first time...
 
wow, that is a very ambitious project, and one I could not even begin to accomplish after 45 years in the communications industry.

I see a problem(s)

1st, you are trying to track a bus with users' Android cellphones, but you don't know their IMEI ( and legally you will never know ) , or even if they are using a common app. Let's say they are all using WAZE which is a social app. With WAZE you must be a "known user" to the other guy's app, and you must have the same Destination or WAZE will not show you where that person is.

2nd, let's assume you have created this Bus App... you need to be able to Ping all of the Bus App users, and you need to know which bus route they are riding on.

3rd, assuming you can Ping the users, lots of buses use some of the same streets in their travels.... so, just assuming that Bus "123" is on SOUTH STREET will not guarantee you that Bus App user "x" is on the same bus that you want to track.

4th, any app that is so busy Pinging back and forth like that, is going to be extremely Power Hungry and use up battery power fast. I have uninstalled apps that I tried and discovered they were power mongers....


I wish you well, but you have a hard job ahead of you.
 
Well I didn't want to put a damper on things, but I agree it's a challenging project, and unless you're a genius, probably impossible for you. Can you pick a simpler project?
 
@AZgl1500 i see..thanks you for your explaination...how about application Friend Finder at google play? That application can show where are location your friend in maps right..? let say,i do similar like apps friend finder but customize it to know location bus... to know location bus,do manual like user must save number phone driver bus and track it.

sorry for the bad idea,but i just want to ask..
i think,i must change my tittle project,it very hard for me

OMG i'am in dangerous...
 
@LV426 yeahhh...i think so.. it very hard for me...i want to change my tittle project,i will discuss it with my supervisor...

i have second ideas to share with you guys..

How about this ideas?

Normally , the restaurant has a menu to order food . The menu is printed on A4 paper . Customers will place orders based foods list of foods that have been granted . This system will be used by shop owners only. I want to build applications that restaurant owners can scan food menus that have been ordered by customers using smartphones . After completion of scan , the system will produce information relating to the profitability of sales on the day and told the shop owner what is the menu most demand on the day of the sale. The store owner can also view sales reports for the day. All this information can be downloaded in the form of Microsof word. To perform this scan , I will approach the barcode scanner and SQL Lite .
 
That sounds a lot more realistically achievable idea. There's a library that you can use to do barcode recognition.
 
Well not exactly simple, but much more so than your original idea. You'll still have a heck of a lot of work to get it done in 1 month, I think.
 
Well I can point you in the right direction and help you with specific problems. You can help yourself by reading some tutorials on Android development, there is tons of material on the web.
But if you are really starting from ground zero, then 1 month isn't very realistic to complete *any* Android app project.
I mean do you know anything about databases? Do you know how to construct a query? Do you know how to update records in a database? Do you know about sqlite, the database used by Android apps?
 
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