This is custom android app is for showing the location of wild flowers in Zion National Park along with information about those flowers including photos and maps. Technical terms in the species descriptions can be tapped on and a definition (some with photos) will pop up. It can run without a cell signal which is useful since many of the areas where the flowers are don’t have service.
The first part of this project was a website where all the information about the species and their locations could be entered and photos uploaded. This website was built on our PHP Base Admin that we use for many custom websites. Besides entering data on the website, it could also import spreadsheet data. When building the Android App, the wildflower data is exported as a SQLite database. It is then put into the android app along with the images before it’s complied and packaged. That way if the device can’t access the internet, the app is still usable. The only things it needs internet access for is getting the basemap and for getting about screen text (so it could be changed without having to update the app). You could still see where you were relative to the flower locations on the map even without the basemap.
