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Inspiration

One of our biggest challenges this year was finding roommates for our apartment groups. We realized that many students were in the same boat and that there was a need for a better way to connect with potential roommates, so we decided to create an app that would help students with similar lifestyles and preferences find each other. We hope that our app will help make the roommate finding process simpler for students looking for groups.

What it does

Find people to room with. When signing up, users indicate their desired roommates' lifestyle, preferred room size, housing budget, and vehicle preferences. Then, they browse the profiles of other users and can message others with similar preferences to create or join roommate groups.

How we built it

We used Figma to design the layout, then built the actual app in Android Studio and added Firebase for a backend.

Challenges we ran into

None of us had any frontend or app development experience before this project, so getting started was definitely a challenge. Before settling on Android Studio with Jetpack Compose, we tried a couple other frameworks and UI toolkits but found them difficult to use and poorly documented.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to develop apps. None of us had any frontend experience before this, so building the app was a massive ordeal since we had to learn Android Studio and Jetpack Compose from scratch.