Notes::Nearby

Team Name :

SHA

Team Members :

• Aiman Abdullah Anees
• Hrishikesh Hiraskar
• Salman Shah

About

• Notes::Nearby app is a location based and Augmented Reality(AR) app.
• It’s all about notes on locations.
• Add note to your location, View notes which are nearby you in map as well as in AR.

Minimum iOS Version required

Version 8.0 (8A218a)

Directions to use

• Press the welcome button on the homepage, which will take you to the tableview display the three features of the app.
• Features: View Map: Shows a Map with all the notes (marked red) at the desired latitudes and longitudes.Each annotation has a button.When clicked, I gives us the route to the desired note.
• Post Note: As soon as we press this button..keyboard pops out enabling us to write the title and the subject.Press the (POST IT!) button in the navigation bar in order to post the note at the desired location and other button at the right of navigation bar is used to disable the keyboard.
• Speak: Speech to Text feature with which notes can be posted.
• View in Air:This feature enables us to view the notes in AR.It tracks all the notes nearby(marked with green dots).The note in the air has got label denoting the tile of our note followed by the distance.

What was used to make the app

• Firebase: This was used as database for the app.
• iOS Mapkit: This was used to display the map, and perform all the map related operations in "View Map" feature.
• PRAugmentedReality: Augmented Reality Framework for iOS.It was used to show Custom Map Pin annotation in View in Air Feature.
• SDWebImage: This library provides an async image downloader with cache support.It was used to load the images of all the posts.
• Speech Kit: a useful API for speech recognition. In fact, Speech Kit is the framework which Siri uses for speech recognition.It was used to develop "SPEAK" feature in the app.

What we couldn’t do

The PRAugmentedReality library used only permitted hard coded notes, we couldn’t display the notes written onto the database.

A Vote of Thanks to Microsoft

We would really like to thank Microsoft for giving us the opportunity to showcase our skills in App development. Microsoft showed us how easy it is to develop an App and also for introducing us to the services provided by Microsoft and Azure which are really useful in making an app and which are really easy to use. We really enjoyed the Hackathon.

Thank you :smile: