Flock is a way to see the city through other people's eyes. Store and view videos at your location, across time.

Supported operating systems are >= iOS 7.0 and >= Android 6.0 Flock is a fork of amblr

• Team Members
• Technology Stack
• Client Framework
• Server Setup
• Challenges
• Changes from v. 1.0
• Future Feature Extensions

• Ionic
• Node.js & Express
• MongoDB and Mongoose
• Digital Ocean
• Angular Google Maps
• $cordovaCapture
• $cordovaFileTransfer

To get started with Ionic in Flock, follow these steps as needed.

1. Install NPM and Bower
2. Inside the client folder, run npm install and bower install
3. Install cordova and ionic globally. Run npm install -g cordova ionic
4. Add all platforms (inside the client folder):

For Android:

ionic platform add android
ionic build android

For iOS:

ionic platform add ios
ionic build ios

• iOS users need to run cordova prepare when making changes to the client before porting to real devices

5. Port your application on real devices

To run server code locally:

# the server folder

npm install
grunt server-dev

• Transcoding video files. Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't come preloaded with ffmpeg
• Deployment and porting to phone
• Ionic. Modals and icons didn't work as expected for mobile without workarounds
• Navigating ionic, cordov

• POI markers now use video camera icons exclusively
• File upload handling on the server-side
• Geofencing. Videos only appear within a certain radius
• Calendar / Time Filter
• Likes
• New server endpoints for likes and videos

• File encoding
• Add better support for both Android and iOS phones
• Landmarks. Add the ability to drop a pin and request videos in that location
• Clustering videos that fall within certain boundaries
• Form Validation