OCTranspoLive: A live OCTranspo GPS bus location application for ...

This project has allowed me to gain the experience with Android developmentI wished for.I now feel comfortable with the platform and could work on otherapplications. The project itself brought lots of stress but also lots of joy. I supposethat can be said of any worthwhile learning experience.There were times whennothing seemed to work and I would search the Internet for hours hoping someonehad a solution for my problem. Working with web application APIs for the rst timewas tricky at rst, but an invaluable experience. I can see their value in exposing theapplication model to clients in a scalable fashion.In the end I am very pleased with the result. I think the fact that this solved areal world problem and makes my life easier makes this project worth the many hoursI put into it. The thanks I've received from my roommates has brought me muchjoy and has motivated me to continue development and eventually publish it to theAndroid Marketplace.6.1 LimitationsDue to the delay is GPS location transmission from the buses to the OCTransposervers coupled with the delays in receiving a request on the Android client, thetimes and locations shown maybe o by up to 2 minutes in my experience. I thinkthis is an acceptable error when compared to having only the schedule timetable asa reference.Another limitation is the lack of information about the capacity of the bus. I'mnot sure how OCTranspo might get this kind of data but knowing that for examplethe bus is full would be useful as you would not be able to get on the bus.Finding stops near a devices requires that the Android smartphone have a GPSchip on it, or that WiFi is enabled in order to take advantage of Google's location31