Unipool is an carpooling app for Android developed to allow members of Strathmore to have an easier and stress free means of coming to the institution.

The project was submitted to the Strathmore University Faculty of Information Technology as a second year project.

You can find the proposal and documentation in the docs folder.

Backend API

Developed by Mark Njung'e and Mecolela Sichangi

NB: Unipool is not used in production.

1. Clone the repository.
2. Add a keystore.properties file to the root directory containing the following details.

storePassword=your-keystore-password
keyPassword=your-keys-password
keyAlias=your-keys-alias
storeFile=path/to/your/keystore.jks

3. Create a Firebase project and enable Google as a sign in method. You will need to provide the SHA-1 hash for your keystore.
4. Go to the Google Cloud Developer console and enable Maps SDK for Android, Places SDK for Android and Directions API for the project.
   Note that you will need to set up billing for Maps SDK for Android to work.
5. Add a keys.properties file to the root directory containing the following details.

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=AIza...
REQUEST_TOKEN_ID=***.apps.googleusercontent.com
MQTT_BROKER=mqtt://mqtt.example.com

• You can get the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY and REQUEST_TOKEN_ID from the [credentials page]- (https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials).
• The GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY is any of the API keys.
• For the REQUEST_TOKEN_ID it needs to be an OAuth 2.0 client ID of type Web application, not Android.
• For an MQTT broker you can host your own instance of my sample broker, or any MQTT broker provider.

6. Open and build the project in Android Studio (3.0+).

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