Code Fest 2013
UCSC students won the Silver Award with prize money of 30,000 for securing the second place at the Code Fest 2013 held at SLIIT Malabe. This event was organized by the Faculty of Computing, SLIIT. “LocTip” of the UCSC was the team that won this award and it was one of the 22 University teams participated in the preliminary rounds.
All five members of the LocTip team were first year undergraduates of the UCSC.
- P. A. Ayantha Randika (2012/CS/114)
- Milindu Sanoj Kumarage (2012/CS/075)
- L. A. R. H. Perera (2012/CS/103)
- Anuradha Edirisuriya (2012/IS/016)
- K. K. T. P. Ranathung (2012/CS/112)
LocTip is a simple yet powerful app that acts as a location based reminder which triggers alerts to the user at a given location and at the given time. LocTip uses Google maps for the location services and your phone’s ‘GPS’ to track your location. This app has three main tabs where the user can set up either a ‘to-do’ an ‘alarm’ or an automatic ‘profile changer’ in your device. It also has a ‘my places’ window where the user can add default locations, which can be their favourite locations chosen from a map and save them to use later in the reminders.
To-Do
In this option the user can add a to-do reminder with a title and a description along with a time and a location where it should be triggered. Choosing a location has two parts. The user either can select a default location where it has been saved earlier in my places or add a custom place where the user can select a place from the map at that time. Once the device is entered into that proximity an alert will trigger and a notification will show up in the notifications bar.
Alarm
The add alarm option will allow the user to add a ringing alarm at a given location the user entered. Once again the user can select either from a default or a custom location. Once the alarm is triggered the user can also set it to snooze mode where it will ring again in five minutes time or just stop the alarm.
Profile Changer
Here the user can set their devices’ profile to change when they enter a given location and to change back when the exit that certain vicinity. Profile change can be set to ‘general’, ‘vibrate’ or ‘silent’ as the user demands.
My Places
The user’s favourite or default locations are saved here. They can click on the ‘Add Place’ button which will let the user zoom in to the map to select and pinpoint a location with a long press, add a name and a radius where the proximity that the reminder needs to be triggered in the device.