Glossary and Information Sources

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Terminology

User: A person who uses this App. It can be the driver and the rider.

Rider: A user who wants to ride and need a driver.

Driver: A user who focuses on the drive and picks up the rider.

Profile: A description of someone contains information.

Contact information: The details of the email or phone number.

Status: User's status.

Driver’s status: Whether the driver accepts the rider's request.

Rider’s status: Showing the rider’s pick up location, and whether the rider cancels the request.

Offline: Offline behaviour.

Geo-location: The rider's start and end location.

Request: The requests want to do something.

Searching: Browse and search open requests.

Accepting: Accept requests.

Notification: To inform the rider/driver when the driver/rider's status changes.

QR-bucks: The payment method in the App and can produce a QR-code.

QR-code: Comes out the QR-code.

Payment: Paying the money.

Rating: A score or measurement of how good the service of the driver or behaviour of the driver is.

Information Source

Using some design concepts from Uber APP.

Previous 301 group projects:

https://github.com/CMPUT301F19T09/vibes/wiki

https://github.com/CMPUT301W19T09/SkipTheLibrary/wiki

https://github.com/CMPUT301F19T20/MoodDiary/wiki

We use lots of Google Map API:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation

Code Reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49659549/how-to-show-a-firestore-collection-in-an-android-listview-using-an-adapter

Same Type Apps

Uber

Lyft

Gett

Curb

Flywheel

Didi Cab

Grab

Easy Taxi

Definitions are taken from:

Oxford Dictionary

Merriam Webster

License

MIT License

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