CheckPet - The Ultimate Pet Planner

Description

This application, developed for Android devices, was created to benefit the lives of busy pet owners. Users are able to create a household, shared with each of their family members, and manage the tasks associated with their animals. Once a user completes a task, for example feeding the dog in the morning, they check the box for its completion, and this gets updated on all members' devices. This helps alleviate the issue of family members not communicating with each other when tasks get done, resulting in them getting performed multiple times. The cat can no longer meow its way to a three-course dinner!

Features

• Connects to a household shared between all family members
• Add all of your pets to the houshold and store pictures of them
• Sends a notification to the owners to perform each task at the start of the day they must be done
• When a task gets completed and checked off, this change is reflected on every family member's device
• If you have a roommate you need to take care of, you can even add him/her to the list of pets and add tasks accordingly

Main Audience

The main purpose of creating this application was to eliminate the additional stress pet owners experience on a daily basis. Not only does this application allow users to avoid performing tasks multiple times, it centralizes the information about each of their pets. Previously, pet owners would simply keep a stack of sticky notes for each pet's regular appointments and check-ups. Now, with this user-friendly application, owners have access to all of this information on the fly and in their pocket whenever it's needed most. In addition, this application acts as a fun platform to teach children the responsibility of taking care of their pets, and helps them become more organized.

Background

During the Mobile Application Development class at Colorado School of Mines, our group was tasked with creating an Android application that solves a daily problem we regularly encountered. Two of our three members have pets they need to take care of in the midst of rigorous schoolwork. Therefore, we felt there needed to be a better way to manage the responsibilities of owning an animal. CheckPet was then born as the first all-inclusive pet planner application. The motivation for such a product (and also the testing team) is pictured above.