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Zoo Brno 2

Project maintained by kaprijela Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham

Improving the ZOO Brno Mobile Application

This is onepage site serving as a description of improving application for ZOO Brno.

This is a school project (fi.muni.cz && PB138).

Goals

improve current GUI -> get it closer to modern style that is used these days, which can be observed at all screen sizes nicely
add a feature to update its texts and images when new version is available online (old version has all data imported and when somethings is changed, the application has to be re-released in a new (sub)version)

Solution

GUI improved for better readability. GUI is now more responsive (ergo better accessible on tablets).
Used couchDB/pouchDB combination for easier data exchange. Database handles all the required features - easy access, time stamping (to keep the amount of transferred data at minimum),…

Documentation & Authors

… please refer to the Wiki page

Final Reports

All final reports can be found in the _reports folder here.

You can also view its HTML form:

Database structure

Every animal has to contain specific information. You can examine the template below, or see a full file example here.

{
   "_id" : "alpaka",
   "facts" : [
   ],
   "images" : [
      {
         "full" : "data:image/jpg;base64,/9j/4AA...",
         "thumbnail" : "data:image/jpg;base64,/9j/4AB..."
      }
   ],
   "text_adult" : [
      "text string"
   ],
   "text_child" : [
      "text string representing a paragraph",
      "another string"
   ]
}

Application required permissions

(Android only)

storage access is required by the PouchDB which stores all required texts and images
camera access - the application is able to scan QR codes
full network access is required for data updates

Application Download

Stable application can be downloaded from Play Store. This testing version needs to be downloaded and compiled from the GitHub repository.