An Overview of the App
The App I really enjoy traveling and like to find out about interesting things nearby wherever I happen to be. I am often driving when visiting new places and thus am not necessarily able to look on my phone, so I thought: Why can't an app just read me information about nearby attractions? I couldn't find an existing app that did, so I figured it would be pretty fun write my own. That is how I came up with the idea for the app we are going to be building. For now, we will call it autotoor. What will the app do? The app will leverage the user's phone's current location to lookup nearby points of interest and then read information about them to the user. It will also display an associated picture and the text of what it reads aloud. Where will we get the information about points of interest from? Luckily Wikipedia offers a Geosearch API that allows you to lookup articles by GPS coordinates. We can pass a user's GPS coordinates ...