Does anyone have experience with making apps?

"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
10/28/2014 at 17:57 • Filed to: None

I'm not sure how easy it would be to do, but we really need an app to show us all the greatest driving roads around. Users would be able to report winding roads, long straightaways, tunnels, dirt roads, hilly roads, high speed limits, and low-traffic roads. Maybe some other things, too, like warnings about dangerous corners and roads that should be completely avoided even though they look fun. And then you could search for individual types of roads or view them all at once, and it would be awesome.

I got the idea because my parents' GPS has an option to avoid dirt roads, so it knows where they are, but I can't make it show them to me.

DISCUSSION (5)

TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H! > Rainbow
10/28/2014 at 17:59

https://play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Rainbow > TheLOUDMUSIC- Put it in H!
10/28/2014 at 18:04

I don't know how to Google.

AthomSfere > Rainbow
10/28/2014 at 18:08

Apps aren't hard if you already know the base language:

Java for Android

C# for Windows Phone

Objective C for that inferiorOS...

But map APIs can be interesting between the APIs, getting them to do nonstandard things and licensing.

WhiskeyGolf > Rainbow
10/28/2014 at 20:24

I make apps, for both iOS and Android. That's an interesting idea, and it sounds like the link above "Greatest Drive" may be a good candidate. I think limitations in tracking probably mean it would end up as a crowd sourced driving diary. Maybe you'd have the option of recording your route (like a bike or jogging app) or specifying start and end points and let Google figure out the middle (like remembering after you've driven it). It could be an interesting project. The annoying bit is that Google already has all of this info. You should be able to select routes based on "Jalopness" haha.

Rainbow > WhiskeyGolf
10/28/2014 at 21:03

Exactly! It's bothersome that most GPSs know all of this stuff already, but they treat it like a bad thing and assume nobody wants to know.