Author: olezt
This application is a hybrid location based application - client side - that is designed to illustrate the activity of lightning in the territory of Greece in real time. Developed focusing on implementation for Android and iOS devices, but can, with certain modifications, be used in other operating systems such as windows phones or blackberry. Technologies used are Apache cordova, Ionic and AngularJS frameworks.
With the implementation of the application, users are allowed to be informed in real time lightning activity in areas of their choice or their current location. To determine the location of the user, GPS technology (Global Positioning System) of the device is being used. Furthermore, the application gives the opportunity to the user to be informed about the sites with the most thunderbolts in the last 24 hours in the broader area of Greece. The clustering of the thunderbolts data, to determine these sites, is being processed with the use of the DBScan algorithm at server side - not included in this repository -.
https://olezt.github.io/ThunderboltViewer/
All interesting files concerning the implementation are at /www folder :D
- Location acquisition
- Network state acquisition
- Intergrating with google maps and geoJSON
- Download .apk file from https://github.com/olezt/ThunderboltViewer/releases/
- Enable developer settings
- Install app
- Install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/
- Install git https://git-scm.com/
- Install AngularJS https://angularjs.org/
- Install Apache Cordova https://cordova.apache.org/
- Install Ionic http://ionicframework.com/
Whitelist plugin
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-whitelist/
Used to enable Cross origin requests.
Network Information Plugin
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-network-information/index.html
Used to access information on device's network state.
Geolocation Plugin
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-geolocation/
Used to access device's location.
Native settings plugin
https://github.com/selahssea/Cordova-open-native-settings
Used to allow user alter device's settings.
Splashscreen plugin
https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-plugin-splashscreen/
Used to create a splashscreen while application is loading.
Google Maps Javascript API
Used to create the google maps object.
Google Maps Geocoding API
Used to translate coordinates into place names and reverse.
Google Places API Web Service
Used to get a list of places based on users input.
