pavlidisnick / discountsaroundme

Android Application for checking product discounts and notifying you whenever a shop with discount is nearby. This project is for our semester in Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia.

Discounts Around Me

Android Application for checking product discounts and notifying you whenever a shop with discount is nearby.

This project is for our semester in Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia.

Getting Started

In Android Studio -> Checkout project from Version Control and copy the git address.

Find a story/issue in Waffle, if none is asigned or you are asigned to the story/task create a branch named like:

StoryNumber-Feature

When commiting to the branch state what you fixed or made with the story number like:

Fixed that #StoryNumber

When commiting the last commit the message must be:

What you fixed. closes #StoryNumber

Prerequisites

The only thing you need is Android Studio - Get Android Studio from the official page.

Installing

1. Clone the repo.
2. Import project to Android Studio

That's it

Versioning

We use Semantic Versioning:

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Deployment

Download the latest release, copy it in your android device and install it. Note: Must enable the option for unknown sources.

Built With

• Android Studio - IDE
• Gradle - Dependency Management
• Jenkins - Build and Deployment
• Slack - RSS and chat
• Waffle - Project management

Authors

• Stefanos Karakasis
• Nikos Karanikolas
• Nikos Pavlidis
• Kostas Sigas
• Anastasios Cholopoulos

discountsaroundme's Issues

As a user i want to search for discounted items on the discount tab

LoginActivity

Create class with methods in their simplest form

As a user i want to be able to use a side drawer with a nice interface

As a user i want to be able to change my discount price threshold, asc or desc order

As a shop owner i want to upload items and be able to add details.

CoF: Fill out a form of an item to upload. (name ,price, photo, details , type)
Upload to database details of item shop owner etc.
Information about the item, type ,brand , price, photo.

As a user I want to be able to see a list of options as a drawer

Side Drawer:

• My Profile
• History
• Cart / Check-Out
• Preferences
• Sign Out

As a user i want based on my recent searches to be notified if im close to shop that might interest me.

CoF: based on the user's interests notify the closest shop in a 4 block radius (not city radius)

As a user i want to be able to see my previous searches

CoF: Mostly searched type of items Sorted DSC

As a user i want to be able to create an account for this application

Conditions of Satisfaction: REGISTER form , Login form,

As a user i want to see details of the item i clicked upon

CoF: Information about the item, type ,brand , price, photo.

As a shop owner i want to have a business account

to upload my shop location and my merchandise
CoF: Different kind of account with characteristics like , Shop location, type of items, Details,Items

As a user i want to have a main page from where ill be able to access the app's functionalities

CoF: User's main page (welcome page, acount page ) Options to search for items, Updates on shops, Map mode. etc

Searching

Clean up code for searching in the discounts tab and the map tab

Bug on nearby shops

Nearby shops function doesn't misfunctioning

As a user i want to be able to login thought other social media systems

CoF: Login using Facebook, googleplus etc

As a user i want to be able to filter my searches.

Price, brand , Item characteristics

As a shop owner i want to display my discounts

New tab to display all discounts from current shop owner

As a user i want using a shops marker on my map to be able to see its details.

CoF : Details of shop on marker touch.

Bug on shop markers

Shop markers don't reveal category and name

GPSTracker and MapActivity

As a shop owner i want to set an expiration date for my discount when i'm adding one

A button to choose expiration date and when it's pressed show a calendar to get the expiration date

RegisterActivity

Create class with methods in their simplest form

As a user i want to be able to search for items to buy.

CoF: List of all the items of the current type from multiple shops sorted based on price.

As a User I want to see top current discounts on my main page

Acceptance Criteria
Main page will have:

• A Discounts tab with categories to select
• A map tab
• A tab for User options such as selecting the radius notifications etc

Fix crashing app when you login

As a user i want to see a nice and clean UI for a good and interacting user experience

UI changes:

• User preferences page
• Login page
• Register page
• Add products page
• Possible changes to the discounts page
• Map styling
• Loading pages and animations

As a user i want based on the weather to be notified of items that might interest me to buy.

CoF: Suggest (clothing type ) items that might be useful to buy , and from where.

As a shop owner i want my items to have a review option

Star rerview, comment section.

As a User I want to see my location on map, So I can navigate around

Acceptance Criteria

1. Check if the displayed location is correct.

Resolve problems with Register and Login

Problems to be resolved:

• When you register as owner you must choose the location of your store/stores and create a firebase user entry with the data key from the userUID
• Same for the user register minus the store location etc.
• On any kind of user register there must be a firebase entry with the default user preferences
• On Google/Facebook login if there isn't an entry of user preferences create them with the default preferences. If there, are load them.
• If a user logins with our system then check whether the user is a shop owner or not and pass the USER_TYPE extra to the MainActivity

Side Note: Users that login from Google/Facebook are automatically simple users.

As a user i want when I click a category to show items accordingly

As a user i want to be able to see my profile and make changes such as change user picture

As a shop owner i want to be able to send alerts of any updates on new merchandise

CoF: Users get notified of the shop's updates on Discounts new items etc

As a user i want to be able to search discounts with voice search

As a user i want in the 3rd tab to see all stores withing a chooses radius

As a user i want to search for discounted items in the discounts tab along and with the option for voice search

DiscountsManager Refactor

Simplify DiscountsManager class and the firebase data fetching it comes with the class

As a user i want to be notified when im close to a shop using this app

CoF: notification when close . on discounts , new arrivals, top selled items.

As a user i want to be able to visit a shop's social media page through its marker on my map

CoF: VIsit shop's page option through every shop's Details panel.

As a user i want to be able to get notified of recent updates of shops in the current city

CoF: City Radius alerts of Shop new item additions or discounts

As a shop owner i want my shop to have a review option

As a User I want to see markers of shop locations on a map.

Acceptance Criteria

1. Show a place marker on the map with the shop location.

As a shop owner i want to be able to make any changes about my shop's details

CoF: Changes such as , location, shop details, photos of the shop etc

Bug on adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()

Every time adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() is invoked the picture of the first and the second listItem in the staggeredGridView gets smaller and smaller

As a user i want to search for items or stores in the map tab and show the correct store

As a user i want to be able to use the application without having an account

CoF: Access to information about the shops around in the city, but other functionalities will be able to work , such as recent searches

As a user i want based on any recent special day to come , to be notified of items that might interest me to buy

CoF: Based on calendar , celebration days , special days. suggest items and from where to buy them.

AddDiscountsActivity

Create class with methods in their simplest form

As a user i want to be able to choose from a variety of item categories to search of.

Categories such as , technology, clothing, home etc.

As a user i want to be able to use a side drawer with a nice interface

Update current drawer and add the material drawer.
https://github.com/mikepenz/MaterialDrawer