bookDroid

A simple GUI desktop app to manage a bookstore.

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What it does / How to use

There are 2 user types: admin and customer (found in UserAccounts.txt). Both can view the whole collection of books, and are given the option to do so in the startup menu, which also provides a dropdown of usernames to select from. If the selected user is an admin, they will be prompted to choose a book type to add to the stock. Otherwise, customers will be prompted to search for books to add to their basket and can either checkout (credit card/Paypal) or cancel and clear the basket.

Each customer action (checkout/cancel) is logged and written to ActivityLog.txt, storing the following information:

  • user ID; postcode; ISBN, price, book quantity, purchased/cancelled, payment method**, current date (dd-mm-yyyy)

The book data is stored in Stock.txt and each row contains information for a book in the following order:

  • ISBN number
  • book type (paperback/audiobook/ebook)
  • title
  • language
  • genre
  • release date
  • price
  • quantity
  • page count / listening length (depending on type)
  • condition / format (depending on type)

** Note: payment method is logged as " " for cancelled orders. **

How I built it

Layout designed in Figma. Built entirely with Java and Java Swing. Duration: 3 days

Accomplishments

Considering this was a fairly rushed project due to time constraints, I am pleased I was able to design and develop a functional application in such a short time frame, especially since this was my first attempt at GUI programming and also my first Java project.

What I learned

Bettered my object-oriented and GUI programming. Also learnt the scenarios where specific data structures are more efficient than others, for example, knowing when to use a HashSet over an ArrayList.

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