liulanz/Fix-It

An android app that gathers homeowners, renters, and professionals to discuss home projects with ways to repair or fixes. Users are able to find professionals in their local area

Android App Design Project

FIX IT!

Video Demo

Group Members

• Mei Tak Lee
• Sheng Dong
• Liulan Zheng

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Wireframes
4. Schema
5. Sprint Progress

Overview

Description

An app that gathers homeowners, renters, and professionals to discuss home projects with ways to repair or fixes. Users are able to find professionals in their local area.

App Evaluation

• Category: Social Networking/Services
• Mobile: Mobile is a fast and easy way for customers and professionals to connect with their needs.
• Story: Creates a platform for demands in the form of home repairs/services which is not readily available in today’s world. By having a streamlined application that can both advertise and fulfill needs, people are more inclined to spread and utilize the application.
• Market: The clients can be anyone who owns or rents a home (mostly adults). The professionals are people who have licenses or certifications related to home/building.
• Habit: This app can be used at least once per year when cleaning up their home, when maintenance is needed or for remodeling projects. It can be used as often to ask questions, give suggestions, or to showcase their home projects.
• Scope: Allow users to browse Q/A on home projects and allow professionals to advertise their services.

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

• Login
  • Users log in with their username and password
  • Log in button disabled when username or password are empty
  • Has a button to Sign Up Activity
• Register
  • Switches between sign up with User or Professional
  • Users can enter to Main Activity immediately after sign up
  • Professionals are brought back to Log In Activity after sign up
  • Goes back to Log In Activity with back button
• Home
  • Users can create posts
  • Users can delete their own posts
  • Able to pull down refresh
  • Able to infinite scroll
  • Displays user profile, username, post timestamp, post description, post image, Likes count, Comments count, post solved/unsolved
  • Button to go into Detail Post Activity
  • Profile image gets into user profile
  • Compose button shrinks when scrolled
  • Bottom navigation has options to Home and Edit Profile
  • Professional has verified check icon next to their username
  • Users can input search text with realtime result of posts. Search areas under username, post description, and category/tag.
• Edit Profile
  • Users able to edit their information except username, first and last name
  • Displays profile image and data from Database
  • Log out button in action bar
• Profile (user)
  • Basic information of user
  • Back button gets back to previous screen
• Profile (professional)
  • Verification of identity
  • Displays rating
  • Basic information and profession
  • Back button gets back to previous screen
• Compose
  • Popup overlay with a message icon as background
  • Category and descriptions are required information
  • Camera button to take image. Shows image before being saved.
  • Post button disabled if description is empty
• Detail Post
  • Back button takes user back to Home Activity
  • Action bar displays username of post creator and beginning of description
  • Displays similar info as Home Activity
  • Full image button shows a popup with the full image
  • Tag for its category
  • Current user can reply to post, increments comment count
  • Current user profile image displays next to reply space
  • All related comments are displays for post
  • Replied comments displays user profile image, username, description, time difference
  • Users can delete their own comments, also decrements comment count

Optional Nice-to-have Stories

• Tips to pop up when open app
• Administration to monitor users and professionals
• Setting
  • Choose to show private information or not
  • change password
• rating
• upload profile image
• reply to posts
• other users can DM other users
• Search posts
• Professionals can advertise
• Users can search for repair/fix based on their location

2. Screen Archetypes

• Login
  • user can log in
• Register
  • user can register for an account for User/Professional (bool), (professional) location
• Home (User)
  • Create posts
  • menu to categories
  • Respond to posts as 'user' tag
• Home (Professional)
  • menu to categories
  • Answer posts with 'professional' tag
  • Unable to create new posts
• Profile (user)
  • Basic information of user
• Profile (professional)
  • Verification of identity
  • Basic information and profession
• Detail
  • other user or professional can reply
  • image (not required)
  • question
  • report functionality

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (top) (Tab to Screen)

• Categories
• logout

Tab Navigation (bottom) (Tab to Screen)

• Home
• Account

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Login
  • Home
  • Register
• Register
  • back to Login
  • Home
• Home
  • Detail Post
  • User Profile
  • Compose
• Edit Profile
  • Log out button to Log in
• Detail Post
  • back to previous
• User Profile
  • back to previous
• Compose
  • Home
• LogOut
  • Login

Wireframes

[BONUS] Digital Wireframes & Mockups

[BONUS] Interactive Prototype

Schema

Models

User

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the user account(default field)
firstName	String	name of user
lastName	String	name of user
email	String	email of user
username	String	alias of user
password	String	password of user
profileImage	File	user profile image
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)

Professional

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the user post (default field)
user	Pointer to User	user model
ratings	Number	rating of a professional
title	String	job title of user
company	String	company name of user
street	String	work street address of user
unit	String	unit for address of user
city	String	city of company
state	String	state of company
zipcode	Number	zipcode of company
phone	Number	work phone number of user
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)

Post

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the user post (default field)
author	Pointer to User	image author
image	File	image that user posts
Question	String	user question
commentsCount	Number	number of comments that has been posted to an image
likesCount	Number	number of likes for the post
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)
solved	Boolean	user can mark the post if it the question gets resolved
category	String	category of user's post

Comment

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the user account(default field)
postId	String	unique id of post
userId	String	unique id of user
comment	String	user's reply to post
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)

Networking

List of network requests by screen

• Home Feed Screen
  • (Read/GET) Query all posts order by each Post CreatedAt

    ParseQuery<Post> query = ParseQuery.getQuery(Post.class);
    query.setLimit(20);
    query.addDescendingOrder(Post.KEY_CREATED_KEY);
    query.include(Post.KEY_USER);
    query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<Post>() {
       @Override
       public void done(List<Post> posts, ParseException e) {
           if (e!=null){
               Log.e(TAG, "issue with getting posts",e);
               return;
           }
           for(Post post: posts){
               Log.i(TAG, "Post"+post.getDescription()+" username: "+ post.getUser().getUsername());
           }
           adapter.clear();
           adapter.addAll(posts);
           fragmentPostsBinding.swiperContainer.setRefreshing(false);
    
           }
       });
    }

  • (Create/POST) Create a new like on a post
  • (Delete) Delete existing like
  • (Create/POST) Create a new comment on a post
  • (Delete) Delete existing comment
• Create Post Screen
  • (Create/POST) Create a new post object
• Profile Screen
  • (Read/GET) Query logged in user object
  • (Update/PUT) Update user profile image

Open-source libraries used

• Parse - Low code database
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android

Sprint Progress

Sprint 1

Items Completed

• Created framework
• Added default styles/color and icons
• Added Login and Data models
• Connected to Parse

Walkthrough

Sprint 2

Items Completed

• User profile
• Sign up with user and professional
• Added Log out

Walkthrough

Sprint 3

Items Completed

• User Detailed profile
• Cleaned up Compose and added disable/enable conditional
• Updated and began comment section

Sprint 4

Items Completed

• Detail post with comments
• Detail post with clickable full image

Walkthrough