brunelchat

Inspiration

When starting their first year of university, some students decided to create a group chat for people on their courses using WhatsApp. However, not everyone has WhatsApp/knew about the group chat or wanted to join using their phone number. We decided to create an app where students can login with their student network ID and password and join the group chat for their course.

What it does

Our mobile app allows students at our university to create and join group chats for their course. Students can:

message each other
share documents and links with other students
create and join group chats

How we built it

Java
Android Studios
Firebase

Challenges we ran into

Creating a database - we weren't sure what to use at first and had some trouble figuring out how to implement it
Writing the back-end code
Uploading our app to GitHub (initially)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It was our first time working together as a group and we worked really together
Managed to get a working database
Worked out how to upload our project from Android studio to GitHub, using GitKraken

What we learned

Learned more about the different layouts and view types on Android Studios e.g. recycle view, card view
Learned how to set up a database using Firebase and implement a mobile environment
How to create different branches on Github and using GitKraken to pull and push our project
How to design a UI prototype using Marvel