Together

Overview

• My 13th Hackathon. Amongst my prevoius hacks, this was the most competitive with 63+ Devpost submissions.
• I led all efforts on Firebase backend to talk between the client and kiosk iOS apps we built.
• IBM's Blog about our NGO Solution

About: Connects users with NGO's to create an accessible and collaborative way to help make a difference in the community

Built With: Swift, Xcode, Zeplin, Google Cloud using MVC Software Pattern, IBM Watson Image Recognition, IBM Watson Assistant, and Kubernetes (IBM and Google Cloud)

Frameworks: UIKit, MapKit, CoreLocation, FlyoverKit, UserNotifications, EventKit, Contacts, Firebase, GoogleSignIn, Parse, Speech

Video Walkthrough


Stand-Ups / Milestones

• (Design) Wireframes
• (Design) Zeplin components
• (Native) Create boilerplate w rotating map
• (Backend) Connect double segmented market to non-relational database
• (Native) Implement Apple Calnder and Apple Map transitions

Roadblocks Overcame

• Pull Requests with differnt pod folders and stroyboard edits in different branches
• Async calls View Controller life cycle order of call between delegate and protocol methods
• Geofence Limitation Apple Places a limatation on tracking 20 physical barriers at a time
  • We came up w an algorithim that works around that limitation w/o eating the battery

Useful Links

• git ignore + storyboard merge conflict resolves
• pod merge conflict
• Apple ML Kit
• IBM Cloud

Team

• Backend: Yasin Ehsan, Queens College
• Native: Helal Chowdhury, NYU
• Backend: Rageeb Mahtab, Baruch