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Project RickshawTEAM MEMBERS

KEVIN AUGUSTINO – MATT FOX – DAVID MOORE

SPONSORS

KARASU TECHNOLOGIES - ERIK PAUL - MARK HORN - ADAM NUTT

Project Description

Goal – develop a mobile and web application that… Allows customers to easily find food trucks in their area that interest

them

Provides truck owners the tools they need to effectively market themselves to their customers

Ability to input and manage trucks/menus/schedules

Ability to push to social media (Facebook)

Data warehousing

Easy and intuitive to use

Requirements

Users should be able to search for nearby food trucks.

Users should be able to filter search results/refine search.

Users should have the option to create an account. Add a food truck vendor to their favorites

Rate a food truck/food or post reviews

Selecting a food truck on the search results map would show information such as Name

Their menu

Their current location (and predicted locations, if the food truck owner has submitted a schedule)

Their ratings/reviews

A description

Requirements

Food truck owners should be able to make an account that functions differently from regular user accounts.

Vendor accounts should allow the owner to input a menu, a description of their truck/food, and a schedule.

Social media (Twitter, Facebook...) should be integrated into the app. For example, when a food truck owner adds a new item to their menu, the application could

automatically send out a tweet letting the public know about this new food.

The application should also collect data for future analysis.

The application should at least run on Android devices.

Ideally, there would also be a web page users can visit that provides the same functionality as the application.

No search should take longer than a second or two to execute.

*The system should be able to handle thousands of concurrent users.

*Searches should have search suggestions (e.g., typing “Bu” in the search bar suggests “Burgers”), and should have a “Did you mean” that accounts for misspellings/synonyms (e.g. searching for “Brugers” should display results for “Burgers”)

Requirements

The application’s business list feature should be able to handle at least 500 businesses and sort them into lists according to distance from the user.

The application’s business mapping feature should be capable of handling at least 50 locations within a specified geographical fenced region.

Business accounts should be able to contain multiple food trucks

Food truck map/list feature should be able to locate and sort trucks within a 200 mile radius.

Division of Tasks

Mobile application Matt

mySQL Initial implementation by Kevin

Now populated using Hibernate, handled by David

Web Portal Kevin

API David

Project Structure/Technologies Used

Design

Design consists of An Application layer

A Service/API layer

A Database layer

Application will send and receive data to and from service layer

Service layer will Handle user authentication and authorization

Facilitate CRUD operations to and from database

Database layer will handle object and session persistence

Appcelerator

Titanium Studio IDE

Cross-platform

Ability to easily port to iOS devices

Coded in JavaScript

Simple for designing UI’s

Compiles to native code

Apps run more efficiently

Built-in HTTPClient API

Allows simple communication to our web service

Web Portal

jQuery

BootStrap Framework for HTML/CSS/JS

Consistent look and feel across devices

FullCalendar jQuery plugin

Provides a full-sized,

drag and drop calendar

Used for schedule editor

HandsOnTable Provides an easy-to-use data grid editor Used for menu editor

All plugins available under MIT license

One framework, every device

API Components

Sponsor’s experience informed decisions Java

Tomcat for Execution

Apache CXF/Jax-RS for Web Server Development

Hibernate for Object/Relational Mapping

MySQL for data storage

Spring for Dependency Injection

Swagger for documentation generation

Hibernate Search for advanced query capabilities (Spatial) Chosen for simplicity and compatibility with current choices

API Design

Endpoints are provided to allow CRUD operations for each object type

Service produces and consumes objects in JSON format

Additional endpoints created to allow for developer/debug-only functions as well as advanced search queries

Mobile Application

Difficulties JavaScript

No prior experience

UI Navigation

Issues

Slide Menu Creation

No native module

Not always fluid

Successes Google Maps Android API

v2

Simple implementation

Appcelerator support

Web Service Communication

Built into Appcelerator’s JavaScript libraries

Simplified calls

API

Difficulties Initial difficulty in

configuration/understanding of technologies

Successes The technology choices

have, so far, been more than sufficient

Post configuration implementation has been smooth and relatively rapid

Budget  Server

Provided by sponsors

Mobile Development Appcelerator

Titanium studio – free

Not using any custom modules

Code hosting Bitbucket – free and private

Google Maps JavaScript API v3 Free as long as we do not exceed usage limits

Total expected cost - $0

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