deen-g/engage_app

Engage app

Student ID: 20170158
Student Name: ABIODUN AYANTAYO

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Module Title: Advanced Mobile Computing
Module Code: CMP7163
Assessment Title: Design and Implementation of a 
Cross-platform Mobile Application
Assessment: CWRK001
School: Computing and Digital Technology
Module Co-ordinator: Harjinder Singh

Table of Contents

• Prerequisite
• Setup
• Structure
• License

Prerequisite

[node -v] v14.16.0
[npm -v] 6.14.11
[turbo360 -cli] https://docs.turbo360.co/
[facebook account] https://developers.facebook.com/

NOTE: Android Version

• buildToolsVersion = "29.0.3"
• minSdkVersion = 21
• compileSdkVersion = 30
• targetSdkVersion = 29
• ndkVersion = "20.1.5948944"

Setup

• Unzip app to a location
• Unzip server to a location
• Open app & server in webstorm
• In server folder
• Install using npm in the terminal:

$ npm install

Start server

$  turbo devserver

NOTE: The Turbo 360 platform is the environment used for creating and deploying this Node/Express backend rest-api. make sure the server is connected the output will look like the details below.

• Successful connection for server

Turbo dev server running on http://localhost:3000
Open this address in a browswer to view your project.
This is a local environment for testing and is NOT actually live on the internet.
To turn off server: CONTROL-C

NOTE: The server url must be the same as the variable: baseURL in the app/assets/js/utils/index.js file

• In the terminal cd /app
• Install using npm :

$ npm install

• link dependencies

$  react-native link

• run android on emulator / mobile phone

$  react-native run-android

• Successful build for app

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 16s
233 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 231 up-to-date
info Connecting to the development server...
8081
info Starting the app on "****************"...
Starting: Intent { cmp=com.app/.MainActivity }
✨  Done in 20.89s.

Process finished with exit code 0

NOTE: mobile phone is prefered this application uses voice control, which requires a mobile phone with a working microphone.

Structure

-File structure-{point of interest}:
-app
    -assets
        -js
            -actions
                -[list]: reusable http js files
            -store
                -[list]: state management store
             -utils
                 -[list]: reusable js files
        -sounds
            -[list]: the on and off sound files
        -[list]: image and logos
    -android
    -ios
    -components
        -_items
            -[list]: all components used for iteration within sub components
        -layouts
            -[list]: the header and the footer reusable component
     -pages
            -[list]: all main screens in the App.js enter point
    -App.js

License

BCU