LESUR PaulCHARPENTIER Mathias

Project : Treasure HuntBy The Gingers

Description of the projectFor this project we have choose to do a Treasure Hunt.This treasure hunt allows you to create a treasure hunt, upload a treasure hunt to share it with friends, download a treasure hunt from a FTP server, and the most important play to a treasure hunt that you have downloaded or created.

Description of the application

Creation of a treasure hunt To create a treasure hunt you have to start the record to delimit an area in which you want to hide a treasure, when this area is acceptable you can stop recoding. Then you have to move to a location inthis area to hide a treasure, you will be notified if the treasure isn't in the area. To conclude the creation of a treasure hunt you can save this treasure hunt by indicate a name and a location, and if you are not satisfied by your creation then you can just come back to the menu.

Illustration 1: Recording the area

Illustration 2: Area delimited

Illustration 3: Placing the treasure

Illustration 4: Saving the hunt

Play a treasure huntYou can play a treasure hunt by clicking on "Find a treasure" in the menu, then a list of your hunt appears, click on the one that you want to play with.

On the game screen there is a map with the hunt area drawn. And there is a progress bar that indicates you how far you are from the treasure. Now you have to find the treasure, once you have find it you will be congratulated ! The treasure is now located on the map, but if you quit the game, it will be hidden again.

Download and upload huntsYou can upload a hunt to our server just by a “longclick” on this hunt.

You can also download hunts made by other players, click on the “Download a hunt” button and you will see all the hunts on the server.

Illustration 5: Menu

Illustration 6: Huntselection list

Illustration 7: Searching the treasure

Illustration 8: Treasure found

Illustration 11: 1 file on the server

Illustration 9: Upload a hunt

Illustration 10: 2 files on the server

About the code

DifficultiesWe were facing difficulties when we tried to develop our project :

• Mathias's PC was not good enough to run Android Studio + Genymotion, so we were obliged to develop the project on Paul's PC.

• After some researches we didn't find how to detect if the treasure was inside or outside the area. So we took the methods we need here.

• We faced some difficulties to contact the FTP server because it is impossible to do that in themain thread.

• We also had problems when we wanted to save/load our hunts because some types we used were not serializable.

Positive pointsSome positive points emerged from the project :

• We managed well our schedule.

• Paul already developed a small FTP client, so he already knew a library that can help us.

• The maps API is complete and very useful.

• We are both redheads so we get along well.

We chose to develop a game based on localization because it is very interactive with the user.

Illustration 12: A Gource overview of our project