Android App on US Border Wait Time

Between late 2011 and early 2012, I was working on an Android app that gives suggestions to travelers who enter US through ground border, from both Mexico and Canada. We gather wait time data from US border official website and present them to users in a mobile friendly way. The app also allows user to upload their wait times. Historical data is presented to users in nice graphs and charts.

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Android System Benchmark

In 2012 winter quarter, I took the course Operating Systems. It involves a programming project that requires us to benchmark an operating system in terms of the time to finish some certain tasks. My partner and I decided to choose Android as the target platform while most of the other students chose Linux which seems easier. The reason we chose it is that Android is quite popular nowadays and it is open source compared to iOS. We believe that working on this new platform will be more interesting, challenging and rewarding.

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