Hack Western Android Application
Team Members: Purnima Mehta, James Pang, Ansaf Ahmad, Sagar Thomas
Shopping during the holiday reason can be a nightmare with long checkout lines. Easily skip those lines now using CHECKOUT. Scan and pay with your phone, show the receipt when you leave and its as seamless as that.
Holiday season is coming up but it can be tiring standing in long lines and you could be missing on the next biggest sale at another store.
Scans the store ID, allows you to start scanning product UPC codes, puts them in a virtual shopping cart and you can pay using PayPal or VISA.
We decided to build an android app which required Java and Android studio. Also we had to use a database and OrchestrateIO provided a database as a service which allowed us to easily store data in the form of a dictionary. The backend is hosted on Amazon AWS and is built using the Flask framework for python.
Setting up a secure payment system was a struggle as no one had experience with that before. Android Studio was also difficult but a learning experience nonetheless.
As a team, we're proud we were able to finish this hack in a short amount of time and still learn a lot about android app development.
Next, CHECKOUT can be scalable and have a better UI. Adding a more secure payment system and expanding it to countries beyond Canada.