wsssdc/dinoride

Because the wheel hasn't been invented yet | Submitted to PreHackstoric 2021

DinoRide

💡 Inspiration

We wanted to reimagine a modern app in a prehistoric context. We thought a taxi service but with dinosaurs would have been funny, and somewhat useful to cavepeople.

📱 What it does

DinoRide allows you to book a trip and have dinosaurs deliver you to your desired location!

🛠 How we built it

• Adobe XD: We used Adobe XD to build the mockups for our mobile app. We wireframed the entire application and used tested a lot of fonts as well in Adobe XD.
• Flutter: Our mobile app is made using Flutter which means that our mobile app is cross-platform. Flutter made making the mobile app easy and quick.
• Open Street Maps: DinoRide uses Open Street Maps to determine the user's location and renders out an interactive, custom map in a prehistoric theme.

🛑 Challenges we ran into

• Figuring out coordinate math
• Parsing the real-life map data into a prehistoric visualization
• Finding good assets for the map
• Making sure the dinosaurs actually stayed on the roads

✅ Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Being able to completely change the look of Google Maps
• Adding some basic loading animations

📖 What we learned

• Using Open Street Maps API and data
• Paint to the screen in Flutter

🤔 What's next for DinoRide

• Improve the visuals, add a user account system
• Implement a rating system for individual dinosaurs
• Add appropriate dinosaurs by location to improve believability

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🙇‍♂️ Acknowledgements

We would like to thank PreHackstoric for the opportunity to come up with and create DinoRide, we would also like to thank Open Street Maps for their API.