Inspiration
Taking a hike somewhere in the Scottish highlands might leave you without an mobile internet connection; but how do you check your stock prices? Or the weather tomorrow? What if you're roaming abroad and want to find the nearest Starbucks ? You don't want to spend a fortune on those few megabytes... With SMService you can get all this information with the service available almost anywhere in the world - sms messaging.
What it does
It's a mobile app which uses sms messages to get data you need
How we built it
App is designed to be fully extensible with various plugins, we're bundling an HTML5 offline web app within a mobile application and extending the functionality with native code. The server uses django which is a python framework. Twilio service handles the data transitions between app and the server, and server uses other APIs to produce responses.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into a lot of integration problems. Every android device behaved differently with the APIs we are using which proved to be a difficult challenge to build on.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have an almost working demo version.
What we learned
Integrating is hard, also we learn some new API's
What's next for SMService
We will try to fully finish the project; more plugins.
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