Compass is a location monitoring platform with GPS reading optimisation capabilities. Its development is part of the March-April 2021 Software Development internship in Terracom SA.
The role of this application is to provide end users with an intuitive interface for logging their routes. The app is receiving GPS coordinates at a given time interval. They are in turn stored in a local DB and given an Internet connection, they are published to a remote server via RabbitMQ Queues implementing the AMQ Protocol. These coordinates are then passed to a FaaS implementation of the Kalman filter in order to improve accuracy. The user interface will provide an overview of user's current route with the help of Google Maps API.
In order to preview and develop the application, we 'll be using Android Studio.
To load the project, start by going to File -> New -> Project from Version Control. The Get from Version Control window pops up. Make sure to log in to your GitHub account from the GitHub tab. Then, in the Repository URL tab, select Git for Version control. Paste the repository URL and specify the directory in which the project will reside. Finally hit Clone.
Note that Android Studio projects, usually reside in C:/Users/username/AndroidStudioProjects/.
In order to get the google API to work you have to include the key in your local.properties file.
Since this is a local configuration file generated by Android Studio, you will have to manually add the line google.map.key = <KEY> in its contents.
Make sure that before you build and run the project, your Gradle file is in sync. Simply go to File -> Sync Project with Gradle Files.