The Explorer
Codepath Group Project
Members: Aditi.K ,Huyen.T, Raj Praveen
Description
The Explorer is your travel buddy. It stays with you throughout your journey. It lets you look for places, plan your trip, post pictures and add reviews/ratings. It lets you create a story out of your journey which you can share with your friends and family and cherish those moments.
Video Walkthrough
- Updated 12/07/2016 Trip Feed [video walkthrough] (http://imgur.com/a/h0NzT)
- Updated 12/07/2016 Trip Creation [video walkthrough] (http://imgur.com/a/5R990)
- Updated 11/21/2016 [video walkthrough] (http://imgur.com/oQU8cJc).
Wireframes
- Setup, Homescreen, Trip Planning
- Destination details, Story view and User stories
User Stories
Required
- User can login with Facebook or Google
- User can see the home screen that includes:
- User details:
- User name and profile image
- A placeholder for profile image prepopulated from Facebook or Google
- A button inside placeholder to upload a new profile photo
- A placeholder for cover photo prepopulated with a default image
- A button inside placeholder to upload a new cover photo
- User timeline:
- Scrollable timeline of all the user's "stories" and "trips" (i.e. past stories, current story if any, and future trips)
- Each story/trip has a title, cover photo and travel date
- Tapping on a story/trip takes the user to a separate "Story" view
- Button to create a new story/trip (could be toolbar button or floating action button)
- User details:
- User can edit the story/trip in the timeline
- Delete the story
- Share the story with friends
- Edit icon which takes the user to Story view.
- User can create a New Trip. The screen includes:
- A search bar with autocomplete feature. (Using https://developers.google.com/places/android-api/autocomplete)
- A grid view with possible travel destinations (i.e. top 10 travel destinations) or view for the searched destination.
- Tapping on a destination takes the user to separate "destination" view
- User can view details of Destination which includes:
- Button to choose this destination for the new trip(could be a tick on top-right of screen)
- "Top 10" in categories for that destination (i.e.Categories- Things to Do, Places to Eat, Sights to See)
- Each category can be scrolled horizontally
- Each item within the category has a title and respective image
- User can tap on item to see Details of item which includes:
- Name
- Description
- Address
- At least one representative photo
- Ratings bar
- Button to add the item to their current trip.
- User can view/edit the trip details in Story view which includes:
- Name of destination and travel date
- Items added for the destination(i.e. Things to Do, Places to Eat, Sights to See, if any)
- Horizontal scroll view of photos uploaded by user(if any)
- Notes on journey experience
- Ratings bar to rate the destination
- Button to upload new photos
- Button to save the story
Optional
- User can tap on an item’s “favorite” icon (i.e. heart or star) to save that item to their favorites list of story/trip
- User can see more info about the destination( website, days/hours of operation, location on maps, reviews, etc)
- User can drag to reorder items on users timeline
- User can have shortcut to annotate an item by swiping right to reveal available action icons:
- Camera: adding photos from library or taking new photos
- Video: adding videos from library or taking new videos
- Text: adding text blurbs about their experience
- User can tap on a map icon to see a map view with the places visited
- User can add/edit/view reviews for an item(i.e. Things to Do, Places to Eat, Sights to See) of the destination
Bonus
- User can tag people in their story/trip with whom they took the trip
- This automatically shares the trip with them on their timeline
- User can view his friends trips and copy it to create a new trip