DaysAway

For when you just feel like going somewhere anywhere

📋 Table of contents

• Overview

• Media

• Technologies

• Setup

• About

🔭 Overview

Welcome to DaysAway, a new native mobile application to help you select a day out using public transport. Simply choose your preferred departing station from a list based on your location, your maximum travel time and the algorithm will take care of the rest for you.

Current features include:

• Real-time user location data via Expo's location package is fed into TransportAPI to return a list of local train stations, sorted by distance from the current location.
• Days out are displayed on a swipeable card deck, allowing the user to either swipe right/ tap the '+' button to add the trip to their saved journeys or swipe left to discard.
• Tapping on a journey card reveals the details screen:
  • Activities - a list of ten local points of interest from OpenTripMap API based on the destination location, includes a user rating, distance from the station and a navigation button that links to the users default mapping application.
  • Journey Details - live journey information which updates in real-time, includes:
    • Scheduled/ expected departure & arrival time.
    • Train changes, platform number and stations calling en route.
    • Live specific train status and time now, departing station distance from user and journey time.
  • Weather - data requested from WeatherAPI displays the conditions at the destination.
• Links to open the National Rail website to book tickets for the selected day out.

Future updates:

• Return journey options

• Algorithm optimisation

• Customisable user preferences when searching for days out, eg beach, city, countryside.

• Back end implementation

📺 Media

📸 Images

📽️ Video

🤖 Technologies

React Native	Expo	Redux	Day.js	TransportAPI	OpenTripMap API	Unsplash API	weatherAPI

🛠️ Setup

0. Setup prerequisites:

   • React Native
   • Expo
   • Node.js

1. To run DaysAway, clone and install it locally using npm:

$ git clone https://github.com/TheNoshman/DaysAway.git

2. Next, navigate into the DaysAway directory and install dependancies:

$ npm install

3. Inside the DaysAway directory, configure the environment variables. See example-env.txt for reference:

4. Finally, start the application:

   • Navigate into DaysAway and run expo start

📖 About

• DaysAway on LinkedIn