SC2006 Syntax Symphony - Park Proximity

Done by: Chee Han, Michael, Aaron, Arjun, Pranav, Owen

Intro

Given the recent congestion at car parks in Singapore, a user-friendly car-parking app that displays the availability of nearby car parks becomes essential. ParkProximity is a mobile application that displays the availability of car parks near the user and provides directions to the selected car park. Additional features include navigation to the nearby car park, pinpointing parked car locations, retrieving a record of the user’s parking history, and saving favourites.

This product is to help users make use of the publicly available datasets from data.gov.sg and Land Transport Authority APIs. The product adds on to these datasets by providing search functionality and provides directions using the Google Maps API.

System Architecture

Getting Started (Front End)

1. Clone front end
2. Download dependencies required after navigating to the parking folder

dart pub get

3. Update the IP address for webConnect in the parking/lib/constant/constant.dart to own backend server IP address

Getting Started (Back End)

1. Install PostGreSQL
2. Navigate to src/main/resources/application.properties
3. Ensure that spring.datasource.url and spring.datasource.username has been updated with the correct information

If you are developing on an Ubuntu system, include this line in the pg_hba.conf file in your postgresql installation folder

local   all     all             trust

Demo Video

Quick Fix for 'no carpark data found'

1. Firstly, ensure that the map is in place with carparks
2. Secondly, go to the filters page and check off all the availability filters
3. If the error still persists, it might be due to incorrect saving of the SharedPreferences in the flutter app
4. To fix this, simply clear the remove the settings key in the SharedPreferences by including the following line before runApp in main.dart

prefs.remove('settings');

5. Let the app run, it would be better it there is a breakpoint set at the included line
6. Stop the app anytime after that line ran and remove it
7. Rerun the app
8. If the error still persists, repeat step 2