Lost & Found

The Android companion app for the Lost & Found platform — the app for the people actually out walking the streets and knocking on doors. The web app is where you set a case up; the phone is what you have in your hand when you are standing at the last place a pet was seen.

It talks to the same production platform as the website, so a case reported on a laptop shows up on the phone, and a sighting photographed in the street shows up on the case page straight away.

Features

• Home, Search, Map, Alerts, Profile — the whole app is organised around five tabs, so the live map and your own activity are always one tap away
• Map tab — the same public cases on OpenStreetMap tiles, colour-coded by status with sightings layered over the last-known position; tap a marker to open the case
• Report a sighting — take the photo and capture the GPS fix at the same moment, then attach a note; the sighting is tied to the case you are looking at
• EXIF stripped on-device — the photo's hidden metadata is removed on the phone before it is uploaded, so the location attached to a sighting is the one you reported, not what was buried inside the image
• Alerts — follow the cases you care about and get a push notification when a new sighting, comment or status change lands
• Report and follow cases — the same case lifecycle as the web app, so a found pet can be marked resolved from the phone
• Built for the street — map tiles that keep working while the signal comes and goes, and a sighting flow that is a camera and a button rather than a form

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