Climate Resilience Data Permafrost iOS App UI Assembly 1

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Challenge Overview

Competition Task Overview

The last 50 years has seen the increased warmness of Alaska. Alaska has warmed twice as fast as the national average primary due to climate change. Warming air and ground temperatures, permafrost melting, changes in the freeze/thaw patterns of the soil is affecting infrastructures. Permafrost means soil that has been frozen more than two consecutive years. It degrades at temperatures above freezing. Degrading permafrost changes the surface hydrology, saturates, and can kill boreal forests among other effects. An estimated 14% of Alaskans live in areas sensitive to permafrost degradation. Some Alaskan communities rely on a single road or airstrip for their survival. Alaska is already feeling the effects of warming on infrastructure – changes in the permafrost layer and active topsoil layer causes land to shrink and bulge; changes which causes infrastructure buckling. The proposed app provides an infrastructure risk rating by analyzing modeled ground temperature data and modeled data of the thickness of the soil layer on top of the permafrost layer – all over a period.  A user is able to swipe the temperature layers across years to view an aggressive change in ground temperature.

For this challenge, we need to build the UI for this app and make it ready for demonstration and backend integration.

More specifically:

  • Build an iOS / iPhone prototype app that matches the storyboard, it must also have correct screen flow
  • Use Core Data for persistence (you may use test data stored in Core Data to test features like weather, but test data should not be part of the app when building it for production purpose) 
  • Charts must be rendered from data, it should NOT be a static image
  • Location feature must work 
  • Supports iOS 8
  • Supports iPhone 5, 6 and 6 plus
  • Code can be written in either objective-c or swift, up to you.
  • This challenge should cover screens from 01-1_Splash Screen.png to 05-5_Future Projection_Save.png

Storyboard is provided in challenge forum, register to download it.

Technology Overview

  • iOS 8
  • iPhone 5, 6 and 6 plus
  • Xcode 6 (latest version)
  • Swift or objective-c

Documentation Provided

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Final Submission Guidelines

Submission Deliverables

A complete list of deliverables can be viewed in the TopCoder Assembly competition Tutorial at: http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Assembly+Competition+Tutorials 

Below is an overview of the deliverables:

  • Code that covers all requirements
  • A complete and detailed deployment documented explaining how to deploy the application including configuration information.

Final Submission

For each member, the final submission should be uploaded via the challenge detail page on topcoder.com

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