android-georallye

A simple-but-fun GPS-enhanced, compass-only, geo caching rallye-app for custom adventures

What?

This is an app for geeks that like to do their own geocaching-like rallye. Therefore you have to set your own quests. Each quest has a GPS location and a task/question. Once the user is near to the location the question is reveilled. She/He can now input the answer and the next quest with a new location gets activated. The GPS coordinates are hidden the whole time by purpose: You only have a compass direction and the distance to the target location. This is trickier than searching a position on a map.

Create your own rallye with friends

1. Clone this project, open it with ADT (compilation with Android v4.2.2 preferred)

2. Open data/Quests.java and create your quests (follow the instructions in that file). A quest looks like that:

    Quest q = new Quest();
    q.setCode("start");
    q.setTitle("Introduction");
    q.setLatitude(53.553017);
    q.setLongitude(9.994772);
    q.setDistanceTrigger(10);
    q.setWelcomeMessage("Welcome to this rallye! Follow the compass to the center of Hamburg, Germany until the distance is as low as possible. A quest will be displayed as soon as you're nearer than 10m!");
    q.setQuestMessage("This is an example quest. The answer is the access code to the next quest. When was Mozart born?");
    q.setCompleteMessage("Congrats! You finished your first quest!");
    quests.add(q); //add as many as you like
   

3. Compile and test, share the app with you friends and have a nice georallye-adventure