Investr is an app that allows individuals and groups to compete in the virtual investment and trading of stocks, cryptocurrency, commodities, and foreign currency. Users can build portfolios and track the performance of their investments in comparison to other users and the greater Investr community. Users have the option to read news targeted to their portfolios, chat regarding their selections, review investment best practices, and even transfer investment allocations to popular real-world trading platforms. With integrated push notifications, investors can be notified of market movements in real time in order to make informed trading decisions.
- App mocks can be found at https://github.com/InvestrApp/investrAndroid/tree/master/meta.
Core:
- Users can login via Facebook.
- Users can receive push notifications concerning market movements.
- Users can access a marketplace where they can perform the following actions.
- Users can buy and sell assets.
- Users can view an asset's current price and historical performance.
- User can create custom competitions.
- Competitions can have a custom starting and ending date.
- The initial investment amount is variable but uniform across all participants.
- Users can review their portfolios for each of their competitions.
- Users can review rankings within each competition.
- After creating a competition, the creator can see all registered users and invite nearby users (via GPS location)
Stretch:
- Users can receive news targeted to their investment portfolios.
- Users can chat amongst competition participants.
- Users can participate in a basic investment best practices tutorial.
- Users can transfer their portfolios to real world trading platforms.
- Users are alerted upon login with an image/gif representing their performance in the market.
- Users can view a portfolio's historical performance.
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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- Icons were found at https://iconmonstr.com.
- Parse: http://parseplatform.org
- Facebook Android SDK: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/
- OkHttp: https://github.com/square/okhttp
- Glide: https://github.com/bumptech/glide
- Alpha Vantage: https://www.alphavantage.co
- Sharadar: http://www.sharadar.com/
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