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Introduction

The enviroCar Android app is an open source, citizen science project that helps users to collect data about their tracks, including but not limited to, speed, fuel consumption and CO2 production. The main goal of the enviroCar app is to collect and analyze track data to reduce the costs of running a car and to advance effective traffic planning. Floating car data is obtained through an OBD-II adapter to which the app connects via Bluetooth.

This year in Google Summer of Code 2021, I have worked on various aspects that  focus on improving the user experience in the enviroCar Android app.

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Introduction

During my learning phase, I was attracted to a project idea that aimed to estimate various parameters in a driving journey, such as total fuel consumed, velocity or distance travelled. After some time of research, I started working on this project idea. For reference, I tested and evaluated some of the existing apps related to collecting floating car data in Google Playstore and hosted on GitHub. After a few days, I came across the enviroCar android app. I was delighted to see that features, such as car selection,GPS tracking, and logbook were implemented. These features were quite similar to my personal project goals. This made me feel that the enviroCar is the right place to contribute and enhance my knowledge.

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