An Android App to Warm your Seat while Walking to your Car

The aim of this project is to explore the capabilities of Android Studio to quickly develop mobile applications for a given purpose. The chosen context is the creation of an app that allows the user to remotely control his/her connected car in order to:

• locate it
• lock/unlock the doors/trunk
• activate the air conditioner and define its temperature
• honk or activate the lights
• check its status (temperature, warnings, ...)

Although it is not meant to be used in a real-case scenario, the developed application passed the initial implementation phases, including a user evaluation executed in order to seek further improvement windows. Final considerations for future work are also provided.

/design - contains all of the designs created for the application (icons, logo, car model)

/docs - contains all documentation (presentations, prototype, reports and user evaluation results)

/src - contains the application's source code

Screen captures of the Login and Menu pages.

Screen captures of the car status information pages.

Screen captures of the information and warnings popups.

Screen captures of the additional Menu and Settings pages.

Screen captures of the Temperature Control and Location features.

The authors of this repository are Filipe Pires and João Alegria, and the project was developed for the Human-Computer Interaction Course of the licenciate's degree in Informatics Engineering of the University of Aveiro.

For further information, please read our report or contact us at [email protected] or [email protected].