Now that Renz and I had a working Google Maps app, our task was to work on having two users show up on the map. Talking to Albert, he suggested that I work on doing the API sync practical from last year. This practical gave a good in depth look into how to do it and would allow me to use that code in the project.

I am currently taking the mobile paper at the same time as working on this project so I found it difficult to work ahead of schedule and do week 9’s lab in week 4/5.

The reason for doing this lab, is to understand how to use API’s and how they integrate into the Android application.

Renz and I discussed in class to communicate with their server using API keys, the JSON would then be parsed/sorted so the location information (longitude/latitude) and be differentiated by a username. The location info could then be used to plot points on the map and then we could calculate the distance between the two users.