Solar Force

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Inspiration

The app design is inspired by the fast evolving technologies, discoveries and developments involving travel within the solar system. This depiction of space in the app was inspired by the idea of space travel as portrayed by George Lukas, the creator of the 'Star Wars' series.

What the App does

We'd love to fly you off to outer space. But...we don't have a rocket yet! Here we're doing the next best thing, using Earth-bound technology to explore space. The app brings you closer to outer space with real-time and historical audiovisual experiences and information. It is an interactive platform for the space enthusiast, to dive deeper into the unknown. This is done through a blogging platform which takes a look at numerous blogs and articles related to outer space, from UFO sightings to quantum physics.

How We Built Solar Force

Starting with the UI design, once the right color pattern and an estimate of the pages were confirmed, the text format was decided keeping in mind the need to maintain consistency and also be diverse in giving the user a varied display of different formats and customisations, for different blogs and information pages. We then started working on the Flutter application and incorporated widgets that best suited our ideas. Adding a tad bit of animation has made the app more dynamic and interesting. This has been a part of our building process so as to help the user engage at a deeper level. The user interface is more than just for blogging, it gives you a full-fledged starry space experience.

Challenges

The biggest challenge we faced was in bringing to life all our app designs in a span of 2 days. Rendering short clips, specific to the animation used in the interface was also a new domain to explore but certainly worth the outcome.

Accomplishments

We were able to adhere to the theme of AppSprint and brainstorm additional features to a micro-blogging app like videos and the idea of listening to music while reading or writing, while keeping in mind the main goal of the app, i.e., to give our users a 'space experience' , this is definitely considered as an accomplishment to us.

What we learned

Aside from gaining a lot of knowledge about Space ourselves from the research done for implementing our ideas, we learned many new concepts involved in UI designing and Flutter development, like optimising user experience and making the interface more engaging and learning new widgets on Flutter to implement our ideas.

What's next for Solar Force

The music playlist feature of the application could certainly be revamped to be made functional, this would certainly be our first pursuit. Adding a text editor and blog layout modifier could also be incorporated into the app in the future. This project certainly has a lot more scope in terms of bringing all our ideas to life by making use of more advanced widgets in Flutter to animate basic UI designs. We would also certainly work on the unique AR feature and implement that into our application as well.

Fly amongst the stars and glide amongst the plants with Solar Force !