an event crowdsourcing and notification app
Owl (originally AroundTown) is a mobile app for Princeton students that integrates all live event information, crowdsourced from users who drop “pins,” onto a single campus map. Using location services and push notifications, only potentially interested people will get notifications about a certain event, freeing others from annoying emails or alerts and making sure you never miss out.
Project Members:
Advisor:
Below is the timeline for our project (last updated 5.14.17)
March 19 - 25 -- COMPLETED
- Get familiarized with React Native, JavaScript
- Learn the features of the react-native-maps and react-native-push-notifications API.
- Toy around with implementing basic apps created using these packages.
Mar 26 - 31 -- COMPLETED
- Project website
- App displays a map
- App handles basic map interactions (moving, zooming)
Apr 1 - 8 -- COMPLETED
- Create a standard API for backend interactions
- Create a standard API for selecting a subset of users for push notifications.
- App can track location of user
- Be able to place/display “pins” on locations on a map
- Start implementing backend (store pin info)
Apr 9 - 15 -- COMPLETED
- Refine backend API for unforeseen issues
- Finish implementing backend (store pin info)
- App can send information to user (SMS or push notifs)
Apr 16 - 22 -- COMPLETED
- Minimum viable product complete
- Users can place pins and receive notifications
- Start working on location specific notifications for subsets of users
Apr 23 - 30 Alpha test -- COMPLETED
- Add pin categories and filters
- Implement user location updates
- Implement location-specific notifications
May 1 - 7 Beta test -- COMPLETED
- Users can comment/give feedback to existing pins
- Add “home base” notification capabilities
- No more adding features after the end of this week
May 10 Demo day -- COMPLETED
- Debug and look for ways to clean up
- Create and prepare presentation
May 14 Submission
Owl technical details
- Supports login with info via Firebase
- Adds user to Firebase, with details, and preferences
- Supports dropping pins, with user inputs, and category
- Updates pins on Flask App running on Apache
- Backend DB is on SQLite
- Push notifs implemented with OneSignal+Firebase
WARNING: The node_modules aren’t uploaded to the git, so don’t forget to npm install. If react-native-maps is being buggy, use locally copied react-native-maps package (update messes up rnpm linking).