qtrandev/androidtransit

Android app showing Miami-Dade Transit live buses on a map.

androidtransit's Issues

Add route lines

For buses on each route we display, we should add lines representing the routes. For now, we can choose a color like blue, but each route actually has its own color.

Our main data source is http://www.miamidade.gov/transit/WebServices/Transit_XML_Data_Feeds.pdf but that data is in XML format so we have a server generating the data in JSON:

http://miami-transit-api.herokuapp.com/api/Buses.json (this is down right now for some reason)
Backup: http://miami-transit-api-gtfsrt.herokuapp.com/api/Buses.json
Docs: http://julianbonilla.github.io/miami-transit-api-docs/

Bus Routes:
http://miami-transit-api-gtfsrt.herokuapp.com/api/BusRoutes.json (backup API location)

To get the shape, need 2 requests:
http://miami-transit-api-gtfsrt.herokuapp.com/api/BusRouteShapesByRoute.json?RouteID=31&Dir=Northbound
http://miami-transit-api-gtfsrt.herokuapp.com/api/BusRouteShape.json?ShapeID=134996

The ShapeID can also be obtained by TripID:
http://miami-transit-api-gtfsrt.herokuapp.com/api/BusRouteShapesByTrip.json?TripID=3500274

Make app work in the background

If the app is in the background, the process terminates and new data is not refreshed. We need to look at options to allow it to run in the background.

This is most apparent when tracking the GPS Tracker https://github.com/herrdragon/busTrackingGps where every position is logged. When other apps are in the foreground, the history is lost when returning to the Transit Tracker app.