jvrashaan / bu_y2y1

General Information

Our team is working with the student-run Harvard Square Homeless Shelter's (HSHS) Y2Y Youth Shelter. Located in Harvard Square, Y2Y is a student-run overnight shelter that employs a youth-to-youth model and provides a safe and collaborative environment for young adults undergoing homelessness. Our goal is to make this shelter more efficient and its residents better informed by providing them with an Android app that displays information about their stay. Additionally, our app implements crowdsourcing to give residents an easy means to provide feedback through anonymous surveys. Our app was built using Android Studio and SalesForce Mobile SDK. For user data, we used Y2Y's existing Salesforce database and instances, Google and Facebook for third party authentication, as well as Firebase, which is a real-time database that allows us to cross-reference authorization tokens with the Salesforce SOQL database. With this more easily-accessible information, Y2Y residents will be able to have an even more fulfilling experience at the shelter.

Boston University Spark Project Members: Reda Ijaz, Adriana D'Souza, Monica Chiu, Javiar Titus, Ray Katz.

Timeline

Week 1

• Understand how to do Salesforce
• Blueprint for each activity
• Maybe set up slide out menu?

Week 2

• Get third party authentication
• Access salesforce database using REST API
• (Optional) Finish layout (with navigation bar)

Week 3

• Finish home page and nav bar
• Combine Google and Facebook authentication
• Get all the needed Salesforce queries
• Research Salesforce surveys
• Meet with coordinator to discuss issue with authentication

Week 4

• Setup handbook pdf
• Pull events from Google Calendar API
• Combine layout with the main Salesforce app
• Research action items
• Different method for surveys
• Find method to store feedback in Salesforce

Week 5

• Finish implementing surveys & feedback
• Action items
• Finish events/calendar rsvp
• Oauth!!!!!
• Merge standalone apps with main Salesforce app

Week 6

• Finish Oauth
• Finish merging Oauth and action items to main app Y2Y_AppV2
• Beautify app
• Test and debug
• Complete documentation (workarounds, timeline, screencasts, etc.)