DAT 505 – Assignment Part 1 – Mobile App Development

Brief: Using PhoneGap, you must create a “ratings” mobile app, focusing on a product or service of your choice. For example, you might choose: Hotels, Beers, Burgers, Restaurants, Shoe shops, or anything else that can be rated! Your mobile app should allow you to create a “rating card” for each item, with the following information:

• Unique ID for the item
• Name of the item
• Photo of the item
• Geolocation of where the item can be found
• Various item-specific categories (depends on the type of item you choose!)
• Overall rating (from 1 to 5 stars)

Your app should allow a user to do the following:

• Create and rate a new item (filling out all of the above fields)
• Store the newly created item on the phone
• Select an existing item to view
• Update the details of a particular item
• Delete a selected item

If you are feeling a bit more ambitious, you might like to add features to:

• Generate a list of the current top five items (using the overall star rating, plus any other relevant fields as secondary criteria)
• Choose two items to compare (automatic analysis reveals which one is “the best”)
• Request the nearest item to your current location (as determined by geolocation)

The result:

Using PhoneGap, Ionic Creator and Brackets, I created a hand dryer ratings mobile app for deployment to the Android platform.

The main features of the app are:

• Add, view, edit and delete ratings
• Allow users to add a photo to their rating
• Establish and display the user’s current geographic location and that of rated dryers
• View top rated dryers based on five-star overall rating
• View a map of dryers in the user’s proximity and link to the dryer in question
• Provide a settings interface to view and delete stored data for testing and diagnostic purposes, and a feature to import dummy ratings