Park Buddy

Overview

Park Buddy is a mobile application intended to allow drivers a more convenient and frustration free parking experience. Settle your parking needs even before leaving your house! The application allows drivers to:

• View carparks near their current location
• Search for any destination and receive realtime search suggestions
• View carparks near their intended destination
• View the number of lots currently available in any carpark
• View the historic trend of hourly lot availabilities for any carpark on any day
• Navigate from their current location to their chosen carpark via Google Maps

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You will need the following to run the program:

• Flutter
• Android Studio
• Android Emulator/Android Device

Installing and running

Clone this repo with:

git clone https://github.com/mohamedirfansh/Park-Buddy.git

To test and develop the app on your local machine do the following:

1. Head to the Google Maps Platform to get your own API key.
2. Navigate to /android/app/src/main and open AndroidManifest.xml.
3. Go to line 10 and replace YOUR_API_KEY with you own API key.

Ensure that you have either an emulator or an android device connected. Then run the following commands:

flutter pub get
flutter run

If you would just like to download and run the app on your phone, do the following:

After cloning the repo,

1. Copy park-buddy.apk from the root folder to your android phone.
2. Install the APK file and run it on your phone.

To view the code documentation do the following:

1. Navigate to /doc/api from the root folder.
2. Open index.html in your preferred browser.

Built with

• Flutter
• Google Maps API
• Google Places API
• Carpark Availability API - data.gov.sg
• HDB Carpark Dataset - data.gov.sg
• SQLite for Flutter
• Syncfusion Charts

Authors

• Zachary Lee
• Jireh Chew
• Mohamed Irfan
• Aneez Jaheezuddin
• Lionel Wong
• Remus Neo