Kotlin bus tracker wrapper
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@Marios
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A bus tracker api wrapper with some quality of life features implemented like a live tracker
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Working on the v2 version of the API, it will have OpenData support and syncing capabilities. Now all of the data will be internal to a database and allow users to custom insert their own routes/trips/schedules. That way it allows for easier access. Unfortunately with this comes the deprecation of the older API specifications but the newer one seems cleaner.
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Woah, more changes since the last devlog, and many helpful ones. In my attempt to provide a more developer friendly library, I switched from using the API to using saved data. The tldr is that after a bit of research, I was able to find an official GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) from the transit entity under my gov’s opendata platform. As such, I am beginning the process of an automated migration of those data to an internal library database. Furthermore, i fundamentally reworked the library to use multiplatform compose - and as such support to many platforms.
Ship #1
Pending review
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Kotlin bus tracker wrapper
I built a wrapper for a local bus tracking api that provides some quality of life features that allows for easy interop between kotlin apps and it.
The challenging part was that it was my first kotlin library and a while since I messed with java/intellij/kotlin. I used for the first time KTOR and it was a really interesting experience. Type-safe requests are really amazing and quite a bit superior to the other coding languages a libraries I used to interop with.
I’m proud of how seamlessly I was able to use it - you can test it by implementing the maven central library linked
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Finished iteration v1.0 of the bus tracking api with a tracker using kotlin coroutines and channels
