RUBiking

Making lending bikes convenient for RU students

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Inspiration

Many students want to commute around the Rutgers campus; however there are a couple of reasons why this is difficult:

  • Very expensive to buy vehicle and equipment,
  • hard for commuter students to bring their vehicles to campus
  • Difficult to find places to store the bike safe
  • The bus system is not effective for students due to high traffic
  • Health benefits by having students move around more outside and having a more active day

What it does

This is a vehicle lending service that focuses on bikes that allows users to share their vehicles for specified periods of time and check out other vehicles.

How we built it

  • Android Studio and Java

Challenges we ran into

  • Merging each others work into one application
  • Relearning parts of Java syntax
  • Debugging UI components in Android

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Learning Android Studio in 24 hours
  • Working as a team on this large projeect
  • Having fun and learning while failing in some ways

What we learned

  • Making a large scale Android project using Java and how to create components
  • How to use Git collaboratively
  • How to use GitHub properly
  • Parsing and organizing XML files for the UI components

What's next for RUBiking

  • Finishing the core functionality
  • Adding more vehicles
  • Providing more methods of contact between users
  • Potentially expanding to other schools

Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_ai3ZIuXg&feature=youtu.be Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxS87HjXU9o

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