On the Google Play store by the end of the week. Abandoned in favor of MetroRappid.com. Source at github.com/luqmaan/MetroRappid
MetroRappid for Android (winner of ATX Hack For Change) launched, but had problems working with the Google Maps API. 😿 We ended up taking it down from the Play Market and began working on a more open solution, and so was born github.com/luqmaan/MetroRappid.
- People don't ride the bus because it can seem unreliable: buses arrive anytime from 10 minutes before their scheduled time to 20 minutes after
- The solution to that is real-time data
- But if the real-time data is hard to access, people won't use it
- The MetroRapid (801) and MetroRail (550) routes have real-time data
- Only CapMetro's official app have access to that real-time data
- But, CapMetro's app is hard to use. See CapMetroApp: When should I take the bus home?
##Solution
We reverse engineered CapMetro's app to find out how they were getting real-time data. Then we documented the hidden/secret CapMetro API. We then used that API and built an Android app that shows real-time arrivals for MetroRapid and MetroRail, really quickly.
Step 1. Select A Route And Direction
Step 2. MetroRappid automatically finds the nearest stop and vehicle
Step 3. Get on the bus
- https://github.com/sethgho
- https://github.com/luqmaan
- https://github.com/scasketta
- https://github.com/johntyree
- https://github.com/caskman
Download it on the Google Play store at (soon).