Application Development for Mobile and Ubiquitous

Computing

First PresentationHandHirer

Team 8Maxime ThébaultSebastian Kunze

Department of Computer Science Institute for System Architecture, Chair for Computer Networks

Dresden, 04.11.2016

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Motivation

• The grass in front of your house is so high that you can barely get out

• You would like to pay somebody to cut it for you, since you are very ill (or lazy)

• Where can you find someone quickly?

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HandHirer

• A platform application for people, who...

Have a small job to offer

Are looking for somebody to help

Would like to help and earn a little extra

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Use Cases

User

Create job offer

Manage jobs

View map of current location

Check map for jobs in range

Accept jobs

View accepted jobs

Specify range

View job details

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Mockups

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Challenges

• Adaption to current location, screen size

• Connectivity: Local cache for basic offline use Reliable execution → queueing of requests

• Power consumption: Efficiency, adapt to low power

• Usability: Material Design guidelines

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Intended Technologies

• Client: Android >= Version 5 Google Volley, Maps API

• Server: Node.js + Express, Mongoose MongoDB

• Development: Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA GitHub repo, autodeployment on server

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Proposed Architecture

DB

Web-API(REST)

Android Client

GPSCRUD

json

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Work Plan

• November Finish frontend prototype Design DB, create schema Basic Web-API, connection to DB

• December Reliable client-server communication Context awareness, adaptation mechanisms

• January Refining, usability, optimization Testing and bugfixing