locATM is an Android App that helps in checking the current status of an ATM and the latest transactions carried out using crowdsourced data. Firebase serves as the backend for the App, and it makes use of Firebase features such as 'Realtime Database' and 'Authentication'.
locATM is an Android App that helps you check the current status and latest transactions made at ATMs near you using crowdsourced data.
Long, unendign queues are something that most people dread, standing for hours outside an ATM only to learn that it is out of funds was a very common scenaio during the Demonetization in India during November 2016.
locATM makes use of the Google Places API Web Service to find ATMs around a Users location, and display them on the Map. The response from the Places API for each Item has a "place_id" to uniquely identify a Place. On opening a Place, the details about the Place are provided, these are stored using Firebase Realtime Database, which is used to store all the crowdsourced Data associated with an ATM. Firebase has a Realtime Database that was very easy to work with and required minimal setup and configuration
Details such as the current ATM Status ie. Dispensing/Closed/Out of Cash are recorded. As for Notes dispensed, users could input what denominations of currency were dispensed by the ATM
