Implementing new features to Travel Mate Android Application

Repository

https://github.com/project-travel-mate/Travel-Mate

A must-have app for those interested in travel. The app provides users with various features from choosing the correct destination to making all the bookings and to easily organizing the trip.

New Features

There were two open new feature in repo issue list to create some cool utilities for the travellers. Implemented as per requirement described in the issue description.

1. Currency Converter
   Link to issue

Purpose of this implementation is to create currency converter utility to convert most of the currencies, currently backend supports around 180+ currencies and provides answers to 2 decimal places for great accuracy.

In this implementation i have created material design UI to select two different currencies using listview selectors. Rest API call requires two currency codes to be convert and intern it returns converted value back.

/**
* Convert currency
* and set result to result_textview
*/
private void convertCurrency() {
// to fetch weather forecast by city name
String uri = API_LINK_V2 + "get-currency-conversion-rate/" + first_country_short + "/" + second_country_short;
Log.v("EXECUTING", uri);

mDialog.show();
//Set up client
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
//Execute request
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.header("Authorization", "Token " + mToken)
.url(uri)
.build();

//Setup callback
client.newCall(request).enqueue(new Callback() {
@Override
public void onFailure(Call call, IOException e) {
mDialog.hide();
mHandler.post(() -> {
Log.e("Request Failed", "Message : " + e.getMessage());
cancelAnimation();
networkError();
});
}

..............

1. Compass

Link to issue

The smartphones have a small magnetometer built in, which can measure the Earth’s magnetic field. This information is combined with an accelerator that acquires information regarding the phone’s position in space. Using SensorEventListener retrieved device accelerometer values to move compass handle.

Reference

Pull Requests

Currency Converter

Compass

GitHub Account

GitHub account : https://github.com/santoshhiremani