The problem DebugME solves

Our Problem Statement:
Learning needs patience, determination and practice to learn. In Fact you need to learn to learn how to learn. Having this attitude one can achieve great heights.
Being education one of the important criteria often students lead to either improper guidance with respect to the path they are undergoing. The path could be anything related to education such as learning to code, connecting circuits etc.

One must always have a mentor, or a helping hand or a kind of backup what to do when the code which you write on the IDE comes up with a bag of bugs. An experienced coder will always shine, but every experienced coder was a beginner at the start.

Having a motto of helping a developer in learning the tool as a beginner, we come into the action of providing a excellent solution of connecting developers together.

Our Solution :
We shall develop a native android application, which connects every developer irrespective of his experience in writing the code, hence helps the beginners to learn to code and not to fear much about the inevitable bugs also a satisfaction and a network for the pros to connect with each other and develop a network through the app.
Features of the app include :

• Ameture Developers irrespective of their experience standards, can post the questions, seek answers from those who know that particular tech stack well.
• They can connect with all other developers who are studying in same school or college or university or the locality where the individual live.
• The developer can see the nearby developers on the google map, hence they can view the profile which leads to other profiles outside the app which could be their stackoverflow account or a github account or a LinkedIn page, and communicate with anyone whom they wish to seek to learn from.

This is the link for the apk file to download : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNugwqYt2kHa4SCe9KAo2mRREtYbhT4g/view

Challenges we ran into

We had issues with google maps sdk. Even after we had experience in working with google maps sdk, we couldnot get over it. We wer not able to get the map. The reason was simple. The API Key was my teammaates, and i was using his api key and i was building it. Nevermind, At the end, I found out by myself the issue. Hence Its rectified.

Other than this we also went through another problem. We are showing contacts on google maps sdk where the user will be represented using a custom marker.
Our motto was to make the custom marker circular. We tried all the means to get that work done. but at the end if we get some more time we can think of it. because nobady likes a marker to be in square shape without any custom marker. But moreover we needed the prototype to be ready by 9AM. Therefore We decided to go with working on all the rest pieces of the project.

These were the hurdles we had to go through, in this hackathon.

And one more issue with all the android app projects is GRADLE BUILD. It always works decently in my pc. ONLY DURING HACKATHONS, IT CONSUMES A LOT OF TIME TO BUILD ONE APK FILE. WELL, THIS ISSUE IS INEVITABLE AND NIGHTMARE TO EVERY ANDROID APP DEVELOPER.