Tracking Application

Tracking Application

This application will allow the user to keep a track of their reminders that are based on locations. It can also track your locations with a given time interval and duration; making it a fully fledged real-time GPS tracker.

Usage - Create Entry

Click on the options pane and click on 'Create Entry'. Fill in the location, date, time and reason text fields. Press the green add button so that it will add the entry to the SQLite database.

The entries will be viewable in the 'Show Timetable' or 'Show Timetable /w Map' activities.

Usage - Show Timetable

Click on the Light-Blue 'Show Timetable' activity found in the home section. A list of reminders will be shown along with the location, date, time and reason given. It will also have a location button that will -- when pressed -- bring you to the location associated with the reminder. The delete button will -- when pressed -- will delete the reminder from the database.

Usage - Show Timetable w/ Map

Click on the Red 'Show Timetable w/ Map' activity found in the home section. A map along with the first reminder (if any) will be shown with the pin dropped at the location designated by the reminder. If you click on the marker, it will display the reason why you need to be there. It will also show the reminder's information which includes the location, time and reason for being there. It also includes a back and next button which will allow you to retrieve the next/previous reminder entered.

Usage - Start Tracking

Click on the Green 'Start Tracking' activity found on the home page. A new tracking page will appear that will display the tracker's current activity (INACTIVE/ACTIVE) and will show how frequently it is updating it's location and for how long. It will include the 'start tracking' and 'reset values' buttons that will start the GPS tracker and remove all the listed locations, respectively.

Once the tracker is active, a timer (chronometer) will activate and count upwards. It will show how long the tracker has been active for and will keep going until the timer hit the maximum amount of time it needs to be on for.

Finally, the 'Email Locations' button will advance you to a new page that will fill in the email's body with the locations logged. You will need to fill in the 'To:' body so that it will send these contents to a particular recipient.

Note: Once the GPS tracker has been active, it will only stop logging your positions until it either:

- Hits the maximum amount of seconds it needs to record for

- The process/application is killed.

Usage - Go To User Location

Click on the Blue 'Go To User Location' section found in the home page. It will give you a map that will show your current location along with the marker placed on top of it. If the marker is clicked, it will display the postal address associated with that location. If clicked again, then it will display the latitude/longitude coordinates associated with that location. It will switch back and forth if clicked repeatedly.

Developer Notes:

- If you want to use your own API key then please head to: https://console.developers.google.com and sign up for a google maps api key. Change the key in the string found in the google_maps_api.xml file with the key you receive from google and then generate a SHA from gradle and list that SHA in the credentials page. The package name should be listed as tracking.id11723222.com.trackingapplication