All mobile applications were written for Android. As part of the competition, it was necessary to propose and develop a mobile application to help the community function in the era of an epidemiological situation - explains dr hab. Piotr Napieralski, assoc. prof. from the Institute of Information Technology at the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics (FTIMS), the organizer of the competition. - The prepared applications are a good example of flexible student education, adapted to the current needs of the environment.
9 best teams took part in the finals. The works were assessed by specialists from the IT industry: Cybercom Poland and TomTom. The winner was main.cpp group, composed of: Patryk Amsolik, Jarosław Drzymalski, Jakub Pietras with the COVID INFO application, which concerned the statistics of: infections, vaccinations, deaths, and recoveries based on official data updated by global and state health organizations.
In the presented evaluation of the competition, the representatives of Cybercom emphasized that the winning application was characterized by a large code culture and was fully finished and ready for commercialisation. People from TomTom praised the interface design and the data presentation in the project.
A distinction from Cybercom was awarded to the Self-Diagnosis application prepared by the team: Julia Szymańska, Oskar Olaszczyk, Przemysław Zdrzalik. The app was a virtual diagnosis doctor based on the symptoms reported by chat.
The event is one of the accompanying events to the well-known in Poland Team Game Development Competition. It is organized annually for students of information technology from the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics at TUL.
The projects have been carried out as part of the subjects "Introduction to Mobile Systems" and "Introduction to Mobile Systems" in the Applied Computer Science course run by the Institute of Information Technology (FTIMS) and in the Information Technology course at IFE. Substantive supervision over the teams was carried out by doctoral students: mgr inż. Sławomir Opałka, mgr inż. Jakub Walczak, mgr inż. Filip Wróbel and dr hab. inż. Piotr Napieralski, assoc. prof.
This year, a special award - multimedia speakers, was funded by Cybercom Poland. The competition was held under the patronage of the Dean of the Faculty of Technical Physics, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics.