Car Tracker Flutter

Car tracker GPS flutter based mobile application for A11, ST-901, GT01, and GT09 SMS based trackers.

Car Tracker Flutter

  • Car Tracker application using Flutter, as a rewrite of this project originally developed using Ionic and Capacitor

  • Mobile application to track car GPS position for SMS-based Chinese tracker(s) marketed under the model number A11, ST-901, GT01, and GT09.

  • Manage multiple GPS car trackers using SMS communication.

  • Set multiple parameters of the tracker (e.g. speed limit, sleep time, password, distance alarm)

  • Manage and list messages exchanged with the car tracker.

  • Track car GPS position for SMS-based Chinese tracker(s) marketed under the model number A11, ST-901, GT01 and GT09.

Screenshots

Getting Started

  • Install Android Studio or Visual Studio Code and get the Flutter SDK.

  • Ensure that you have the environment variables GRADLE_HOME, JAVA_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT, and have access to java and gradle from the your terminal (or command line in windows).

    • GRADLE_HOME …\Gradle\gradle-7.2
    • JAVA_HOME …\Java\jdk1.8.0_301
    • ANDROID_SDK_ROOT …\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk

  • Configure your path to ensure that flutter is accessible from the terminal

  • Run flutter pub get in the project root to update dependencies.

  • If flutter cannot find the Android SDK please run flutter config --android-sdk <path>

  • Use flutter doctor to debug setup problems. Don’t forget to accept the flutter doctor --android-licenses.

SDF Icons

  • Mapbox uses SDF-based icons, to generate icons use the tool image-sdf or sdfgen from the command line.
  • SDF allow for high quality rendering of 2D shapes and should be used when possible. 
    npm install -g image-sdf
image-sdf .\car-marker.png -s 6 -d 8 -c "#fff" -o car-sdf.png

Build

  • Check the flutter android and ios publish guides for more information.
  • The application has only tested in Android during development.
  • To build a release APK for android run flutter build apk on the project folder.
  • For publishing a ABB file is preferred run flutter build appbundle
  • Don’t forget to update the project version on the pubspec.yaml file.
  • When building APK output is the build\app\outputs\apk\release folder.

Android Permissions

  • When new plugins are added to provide additional native functionality, the permissions list in the AndroidManifest.xml should be updated.
  • It might be necessary to also request for permission during runtime before using the feature.
<!-- Geolocation -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

<!-- File API-->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<!-- Contacts -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"/>

<!-- SMS -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" />
<queries>
<intent>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.SENDTO" />
  <data android:scheme="smsto"/>
</intent>
</queries>

License

  • This project is distributed under MIT license and can be used for commercial applications.
  • License is available on the Github page of the project.