City Pinboard

School project for the subject 'Native Apps: Android'.

This Android application makes it possible to post a 'post-it' on a 'virtual' pinboard for a corresponding city/village in Belgium. This project was created on 6/10/2018.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Clone the Repository

As usual, you get started by cloning the project to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/HoGentTIN/native-apps-1-android-creative-app-JonasDeVrient.git

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software

Android Studio and an Android emulator

The emulator is recommended to have API 26

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

Navigate to the main folder of the cloned repository and execute wake_up_heroku_backend.bat file.

This file sends a request to the backend, this is needed because the backend is hosted on Heroku and there is a free-host plan, but the server goes to sleep when there are no requests made.

Open Android Studio
Open the project in Android studio by the following instructions

File -> Open -> [Select project in cloned repository]

Run the application on the emulator

Run -> Run

Create a new account in the app or use the account with username jonas and password jonasjonas

Running the tests

Open Android Studio
Run the file MainActivityTest found in app/java/com.jonasdevrient.citypinboard/

Built With

Android Studio - provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.

Authors

JonasDeVrient - JonasDeVrient
School: HoGent
Year: 2018-2019 | Toegepaste Informatica
Class: 3D

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Acknowledgments

Learnt a lot while developing this project
Inspiration by Material Design (2.0)
Thanks to my teacher Jens Buysse

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