The Building of a Travel Application for Android Mobile

Abstract

The author spent the summer building an Android mobile app that would allow users to find new places to travel to based on their individual travel preferences. The app would ask the user a series of questions about what kind of activities the user partakes in when they travel, what kind of climates and areas of the world they would like or have traveled to, and other questions of that nature. It would then give the user feedback by suggesting places around the world that the user may like to travel to based on their preferences. In order to do this, the author had to become familiar with Android Studio and IntelliJ (the platform on which this app was to be built), and learn the basics of app development and its core components (such as how to optimize user experience, how to format the app appropriately based on what the user would be doing, etc.). This paper discusses the goals for this project, what the author learned and was able to accomplish, as well as a reflection on the project and experience working on it.