Art Institute of Chicago Official Mobile App

A digital guide to the Art Institute of Chicago. Built with Kotlin 1.x for Android.

Please see this page for the iOS counterpart.

The Art Institute of Chicago app is your personal, pocket-sized guide to our collection. The mobile experience offers high-quality audio storytelling, letting the art speak to you. The Art Institute offers nearly a million square feet to explore—the Official Mobile App will be your guide.

Note that the codebase is young, and under heavy development. It might change significantly before the first official release. Nevertheless, we welcome suggestions and contributions from outside parties.

License

This codebase is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 as defined in the top-level LICENSE file. We make heavy use of the Android support libraries and the Kotlin programming language - our modifications to those, if any, are licensed under the AGPL as well License unless otherwise indicated.

The following modules use proprietary APIs:

• The map module includes Google's "GoogleMap" and "LatLng" classes.
• The analytics module connects to Google Analytics

Project architecture

The source code is organized into multiple Gradle modules, each of which is contained within a top-level directory. A full list of such modules can be found in the settings.gradle config file.

The project maintains an overview of the more interesting modules in MODULES.md.