WHERE I GO?

2 mins read time |  2nd Place in Challenge Android APIs

The hackathon – HackUPC Fall 2016

November 2016 - Barcelona (Spain)

Over 400 students from over 20 countries will gather for 36h of dreaming, hacking and shipping on anything and everything. All projects are welcome, mobile, hardware, web, you name it. …

Hacking starts at 12:00 AM on Saturday and ends at 12:00 PM on Sunday.

The solution

Where I go will help you taking decisions about your next flight corresponding to your weather preferences. It is an Android application that uses the SkyScanner API, to get the available flights and combine this data with the OpenWeatherMap API to provide the weather information about your next destination.

Languages

• Android in Java
• SQLite
• HTML
• XML

Technologies

• Skyscanner API
• WeatherForecast API
• Google Maps API

Team

• Ester Lorente
• Alejandro Rosas
• Marc Vila

Hackathon result: 2nd position in Skyscanner Challenge.

Role in the project: Android Dev.

Project code: Where I Go? – GitHub.

Appears in:

• Winner Hack UPC Fall 2016 – Best usage of Skyscanner API: 2nd prize.

Hackathon website: HackUPC 2016 Fall.