Project 3 is your opportunity to really let your creativity shine! You will have the basic app requirements, provided by TouchLab, but it is up to you to design everything using the research you did with your group. In this project you’ll be building a “Google Now”-style feed. Each item in the feed will be a card that the user can scroll through and interact with.
Your work must:
- Have at least one Activity--more if it makes sense. The activity should include a list of interactive cards implemented with Android’s RecyclerView and CardView APIs.
- Include at least three types of cards:
- One card should present data that is stored and updated on the user’s phone using a Content Provider or Shared Preferences (e.g. To-do card, Reminder card, Alarm card).
- Two cards should present data provided through a web API (e.g. Weather card, Twitter card, Maps card, Photo of the Day). Check out this directory of APIs if you need some API ideas.
- Use the Retrofit library to handle HTTP requests and parse JSON data
- Include at least 2 prototypes
- Include user stories based on your research and feature prioritization in a Trello board for the complete flow of your app
- Integrate with the Twitter and/or Facebook APIs to allow sharing of content via social media
- Look great in both landscape and portrait modes and reflect Material Design principles
- Include at least one Notification feature (e.g. reminder, alarm)
- Include automated testing (and manual testing if needed) to cover your app.
- Use JobScheduler to manage periodic background API calls
- Not crash or hang and should handle for when networking/internet is slow or unavailable
- Have code that is semantically clean and well-organized
Bonus:
- Integrate additional APIs (news, other content, social, etc.)
- Integrate with a mapping and/or navigation API
- Integrate with a messaging/communication API such as Slack
- Allow the user to save, bookmark, or ‘like’ content within the app
As always, your app must adhere to General Assembly's student code of conduct guidelines.
If you have questions about whether or not your work adheres to these guidelines, please speak with a member of your instructional team.
Project planning:
- A completed research plan according to the template provided in class
- Competitive research in a Google Sheet
- Written user personas
- A list of prioritized features
- A project plan presentation (there will be an in-class lab for this)
- Completed user stories
- A link to your team's Trello Board set up according to Trello's suggestions
App:
- A final, working version of your app
- Working cloud synchronization using JobScheduler and API integration
- A git repository hosted on GitHub, with frequent commits dating back to the very beginning of the project. Commit early, commit often
- A
readme.mdfile describing what the app does, and any bugs that may exist - At least one screenshot in the
readme.md - Automated tests for your code - unit tests and Espresso tests
- Complete as much of the layout as possible before working on your logic.
- Write pseudocode before you write actual code. Thinking through the logic helps.
- Test functionality as soon as you complete it. Don't start working on a new feature until all the existing features are working!