Silver Lining Web Application

The Team

The name of our team is Silver Lining. Our members are:

• Cameron Conn, cmc19v
• Omar Pippin, oyp17
• Austin Schmid, ats20bb
• Michael Stevens, ms20
• Luciano Zavala, lez17b

View Demonstration: CEN4090L - Final Group Project Demonstration Deliverable X- Silver Lining Development Team -fall 2021

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AQbPKF5lMNu7XXUg1Ex-m8gjkp1jlJkD/view?usp=sharing

Problem Statement

Weather influences our lives. Many outdoor activities are enhanced, degraded, or made outright impossible with the right weather conditions. Weather is a substantial factor in how we plan, go about, and live our lives.

Project Overview

The goal of this project is to give our users better information about weather and how it may affect them. In our app users will be able to select a list of activities they care to be updated on the conditions of.

When a user opens the app he or she will select from a menu of sporting activities they care about. Afterwards, the app will display a local weather radar of the area where the user is located. The display will have markers of where their activities can be performed. For example, a user could select basketball and soccer as their preferred activities. If a user selects a particular marker, the app will present information about the location such as hours of operation, reviews, costs, weather conditions, and a way of connecting with users already playing at a particular location.

Goals

• Relevance: Show users relevant weather information for activities they care about.
• Health: Help our users enjoy the outdoors and live healthier lives.
• Academic: Get an A in CEN 4090L.
• Involvement: Create a messaging system that connects our users.
• Stretch Goals Tips/Reminders: Our app could implement things like reminders or tips for sports they care about. For example, the app could remind users to get a certain number of hours of exercise each week.
• Affiliated Links: Our app could link to third parties that provide equipment rentals or training for an activity.
• Activity Discounts: We would like to incentivize users to keep participating in outdoor activities with things such as gear-rental or in-store discount coupons.
• Scheduling: We would like to implement a scheduling or calendar feature that allows our users to plan their sporting activities. For example, our app could predict the quality of weather a location will have favorable weather on a given day. This could be implemented as a prediction system or with a rating with machine learning.

Specifications

Our project will be constructed as a webapp with a backend written in Kotlin using the ktor web framework and a UI built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Our app will query third-party map and weather data providers to give users localized and relevant weather information. We will store user-relevant and frequently accessed data in a local database such as Postgresql or MongoDB. For weather data we will query public APIs such as the OpenWeatherMap API or NOAA’s Web Service API. For maps we will use permissively-licensed data from OpenStreetMap.

Editing the code

The code is based on a Github CI/CD structure for managing versions and also to collaborate. To run the code type the following commands in the terminal:

    git clone https://github.com/SilverLining2021/Silver-Lining-web-Application.git

Once you have the repository cloned into your local machine you will be able to pull and push changes from the remote branch. For remotely updating the code type the following commands:

    git add -A
    git commit -m 'message'

For the push you can use the integrated Intellij IDEA green arrow to push. In case you want to update your code from the main branch please run the following commmand:

    git pull

Running the Code

Assuming you have the code built, in your project directory do:

./gradlew run

Note that you will now have a local SQLite database created at data.db if one does not already exist.

Note that the default username:password pair for the main user is test:hunter2