Arcus

Project Arcus (Latin Translation: Rainbow)

Arcus is a cross-platform Flutter application that helps designers and developers extract colour information from images. The app saves the user's favourite palettes via local database files stored on the device, allowing the user to close the app and still access their saved colours later. This app is was developed by Oleg Yurchenko, Davis Liu, and Angelina Lam, and Sudarshan Sreeram as a HackTheNorth 2020 project submission.

Our team consists of hackers who come from a variety of backgrounds ranging from frontend development to backend development and mobile app design. Prior to this hackathon, our entire team was new to Google's Flutter framework as well as the dart programming language. We pooled together our previous experiences to rapidly learn the language and develop a mobile app that incorporates Google's Vision API as well as Unsplash's image request API in 25 hours.

Built With

dart
flutter
google-cloud
unsplash

Submitted to

Hack the North 2020++

Created by

I worked on most Networking aspects (POST/GET requests to various APIs) and backend logic (such as processing the images and asynchronous methods with status notifications). This was my first time using Flutter (and Dart). Dart was a really interesting language to use and very intuitive, with a simple syntax. However, I didn't like the layered widget style as there were a lot of brackets inside of brackets involved, which was hard to keep track of.

Oleg Yurchenko
I worked on the UI implementation and a little bit of the the backend logic.

Davis Liu
Angelina Lam
Sudarshan Sreeram