RecycleMania

An interactive educational recycling game. RecycleMania uses a barcode scanner to automatically categorize items, give feedback on how to recycle them, and rewards the user points in order to incentivize daily recycling. The app features a manual categorization option to allow the user to earn extra points for expanding our public dataset on recyclable items.

Mockup

https://www.figma.com/proto/Og3jNiLWnn4bgpGxlFuUjl/Recycle-Mania?node-id=14%3A53&scaling=min-zoom

Technology

• Upcitemdb for UPC barcode lookup
  • https://www.upcitemdb.com/
  • Currently using the trial for development
  • 100 requests per day for the trial
• okHttpClient for http requests
  • https://square.github.io/okhttp/
• Firebase Firestore for the database
  • https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore
• Fragments for list views
  • https://developer.android.com/guide/fragments
  • Used for the manual categorization screens

Important Files

• src/main/java files - MainActivity.java where the homescreen starts
• AndroidManifest.xml - where permissions need to be declared
• src/main/res/layout - these xml files are where UI elements can be made / edited

Testing Setup

• Tools > AVD Manager > Create new virtual device
• For consistency's sake create a Pixel 3, API 28
• Otherwise can enable developer mode on Android phone and connect via USB