UrBuddy

Playstore link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shivendra.hp.urbuddy&hl=en <<>>

FOR MAKING ANY CHANGES IN CODE OR DEVELOPING AND UPGRADING THE SAME CODE YOU CAN ASK ME FOR ADDING YOU AS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORK A BRANCH FOR YOUR DEVELOPMENT.FOR LEARNING PURPOSES YOU CAN CLONE REPO. .JUST SEND A SIMPLE MAIL AT shivendra15@iiitkottayam.ac.in and shivam9935@gmail.com FOR ANY REQUEST, MOST PROBABLY YOU WILL GET A POSITIVE RESPONSE XD.

<<>> This is an android app developed for the use of IIIT kottayam's Students and Related people. Mess hostel and acandmic things + extra functionality ,to apply for leave application online(Still needed to be added) and get instant notifiacations about events

1. Appsuport database in firebase contains appversion: 0/1 where 0 means app is inactive,1 means app is active don't remove app version otherwise app will again get active

2. Link of techclub@iiitkottayam.ac.in Ur Buddy latest Version is shared in app so don't delete that folder. and dont off link sharing.

3. Database for home in firebase \home<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\Text : for text \Image : for image \ Heading : for heading \ UpdateID : Id of the user who uploaded that card

4. Storage for home is in home with image name same as in database home\Image value.

5. Share app same point 2 folders link is given so in that folder we have to keep the latest working app.

6. Gallery database Gallery<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\Caption Caption of image
   \Photo name of photo as saved in storage (under gallery) \UpdateID Id of user who have uploaded that photo

7. Polls databse structure Polls<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\Positive\UID : "1" Polls<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\Negative\UID : "1" Polls<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\Thought : stores the thought Polls<timestamp in millisecond when it was created>\UID : UID of Poster

8. Reward video database Rewards<UID> : it's value contains reward point earned.

9. Acadmics is hardcodded mostly and needed more work Storage structure a database acadmic contains name of the image for each values ex. annualP1 : ap1.jpg : annual planner first page annualP2 : ap2.jpg : annual planner second page timeT1 : tt1.jpg : time table for 1 st year timeT2 : tt2.jpg : time table for 2 nd year tt3.jpg : time table for 3 rd year tt4.jpg : time table for 4 th year

                             READ ISSUE SECTION BEFORE UPLOADING ANY IMAGE TO STORAGE
   

10. A cron job is setup (using shivam9935@gmail.com) to take the backup of nUser ( part of database which contains booking) at 1:00 P.M. which will serve as the counting file for counter app of your buddy.

11. snacks counter app will be counting from "CountSnapshot" database and it is updated 2 times in a day at 10 A.M. and 1:00 P.M.(Can be changed in future)

12. Mess menu image name is stored in database messmeu/Photoname , so, before updating storage bucket update this database too and aread ISSUE SECTION TO AVOIDE IMAGE CACHING ISSUE.

ISSUE : While hardcoding image name in code and fetching it from database make a cache in mobile which then after deleting the original image still loads the image firebase/FirebaseUI-Android#479

To counter issue database contains name of the image , everytime when we upload changed image we rename if i.e. tt1.jpg we will change it to tt11.jpg so that image cache would be invalidated

same thing with messmenu also.

                       PROTOCOL TO FOLLOW WHILE UPLOADING (PUBLISHING) ON PLAYSTORE

1. Change version code and version name in build.gradle app level
2. Change version in contactus.xml in res/layout
3. Change validate_app_version.java activity (2 places) with the current version number
4. Change appsuport add current version name without '.' and keep 1 , if you want to disable old app then keep other version 0