CS490 Capstone Project: California State University San Marcos
Project Description:
CSUSM has multiple parking lots, however, during the rush hours, it is still very difficult for students to find a parking spot. Sometimes students may need to move across different parking lots in order to find one, which could cause significant delays. To help resolve this, this project aims to build a crowd-sourced mobile app that allows students to contribute their nearby parking spots info. At the same time, students using this app could quickly and easily find an available parking spot. Around 14,000 students on campus will use this app, potentially impacting the whole CSUSM community.
Project Objectives:
• The project team shall follow software engineering best practices • The project team shall use Git for app development management • The project team shall practice agile methodology • The project team shall design the system architecture • The project team shall work collaboratively on the implementation • The mobile application shall have an intuitive interface • The mobile application shall have account management • The mobile application shall have parking spot info displayed • The mobile application shall allow info to be easily provided • The mobile application shall have a cloud backend to store data • The mobile application shall be accessible to the whole CSUSM community
Tools Used: ParkingBuddy
- https://expo.dev/ -> react native framework for frontend
- https://docs.expo.dev/guides/using-firebase/ -> connecting backend to frontend
- https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/location/ -> Expo SDK for finding user location
- https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/map-view/ -> map stuff SDK if needed
- https://nativebase.io/ -> frontend UI Component library
- https://firebase.google.com/docs/database -> backend real-time database