When the survival of birds is threatened and their diversity is destroyed, as a developer, how do you use technology to contribute to bird protection? Zhu Chenqing, a junior student of the Software Engineering Department of Soochow University, and her team gave their answers using this app called “Symbiosis”.
Zhu Chenqing has had a keen interest in animals, especially birds since she was a child. When she grew up, she fell in love with hiking and was keen to go to the mountains and woods to listen to the sounds of birds and insects, and capture the natural scenery with the lens. In close contact with nature again and again, she also has more thoughts about the relationship between people and the environment. After seeing a news report about a bird injury in a nature reserve, she and a few have the same feeling for birds. Interested students hit it off and decided to make a puzzle game to popularize bird knowledge in the form of entertaining and entertaining.
“Everyone had the idea of making games for a long time, but they hadn’t had any good ideas, so they just happened to collide with each other.” Zhu Chenqing explained.
The name of the game is “community”, which means “people and birds live together”. In “Symbiosis”, the user’s role is set to be a bird guard, who needs to increase reputation, prosperity, and other attributes through activities such as mountain patrols, bird watching, publicity, reporting, and visits. In this process, users will learn about birds and can formulate environmental restoration strategies based on their own understanding, so as to feel the impact of human activities on the living environment of birds.
What kind of animal is the ancestor of the house goose? How many mice can an owl prey on in a year? What kind of crane does the crane in “Songhe Yannian” refer to… You can find the answers to these questions in “Common Living”.
For the first time to independently develop a complete application, it is obviously a big challenge for this college student team. Because the development platform is relatively niche, Zhu Chenqing and his team have no ready answers to many of the problems encountered by Zhu Chenqing and the team in combination with the HMS capabilities. Fortunately, they are not alone on the way forward. Thanks to Huawei’s “Campus Developer Program”, the team is able to exchange technologies and share experiences with other campus developers in the HMS ecosystem, and apply the latest technologies and solutions from online and offline technology salons and quality courses to In development.
For this slightly immature student work, Huawei’s technical experts also poured infinite patience and support, and actively provided guidance to Zhu Chenqing’s team to help it efficiently access Huawei’s terminal open capabilities and services. “Common Living” finally successfully integrated a number of HMS capabilities, achieving functions such as triggering different scenarios based on the user’s geographic location.
After half a year, the team completed the first version of “Common Living”. However, due to time constraints and heavy tasks, many of the initial ideas of the team were not able to be realized. This is what Zhu Chenqing regrets the most. So at the same time that “Common Living” was launched on the Huawei App Store, the team was already working on the development of the next version. She hopes to embed more Huawei HMS capabilities on the existing basis, and add AR and other popular technologies to enhance the immersion of the game, and even use computer vision technology to realize bird recognition.