IETian's Diary

An application for sharing educational resources

Table of content

What is Ietian's Diary
Prerequisites
- Git & Github
- Android Studio
How to contribute?
Contributors

What is IETian's Diary

IETian's diary is a convenient application that allows students to share context-based resources such as notes, previous year's exam papers, e-books, syllabus, assignments etc.

IETian's Diary was started by a group of IET students in their first year. Due to a lack of resources in their group at the time, they decided to create an app that would allow them to share resources such as previous year papers, study material such as books, notes, and assignments, among other things. It was a huge hit with the student community at the time because nothing like it had ever been done before. Students began using this app by sharing their resources with one another, and this is how IETian's diary came to be.

The application was working fine but progress is the law of nature,that is, many features of the application became obsolete and now it was the right time to upgrade.

If we don't change, we don't grow, if we don't grow, we aren't really living!

Since the project was developed by students in their first year, the project code was not that maintainable and scalable so we decided to start from scratch.

Prerequisites

Git and Github

Here are some instructions on how to setup git.

Android Studio

Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, based on IntelliJ IDEA . On top of IntelliJ's powerful code editor and developer tools, Android Studio offers even more features that enhance your productivity when building Android apps.

How to contribute

We're open to any kind of contribution, just follow the steps and you're good to go!

Issues

Submit a new issue
Comment on an issue to get assigned

Code Contribution (PR)

Fork

Fork the repository on your account
If you're not sure, here's how to fork it

Clone the fork

Clone the repository on your local machine using this command
$ git clone [email protected]:[your_github_handle]/ietians-diary.git && cd ietians-diary
Or if you want to use the version control system of Android Studio, you can use your github account by generating a personal access token to login. Here's how to generate a Personal Access Token

Create a temporary Firebase Project on your account

Creating Project

Here's how to create one.
After creating firebase project, create an android project inside it
Generate SHA1 and SHA256 fingerprints and add to the project. Here's how to do it
Download the google-services.json file and place it inside the app folder (Project View)

Enabling Google Sign in

Go to the authentication panel from the left menu
Enable Google Sign in by clicking on it
Copy the web_client_id

Handling keys/credentials inside the project

Create a file named keys.xml inside the values directory under src -> /app/src/values/keys.xml
Create a string resource item inside the file and name it web_client_id
Paste the web_client_id you copied from Google Sign in
It should look like this
<string name="web_client_id">xxxxx-xxxxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com</string>

Submitting Pull Request

Open terminal/cmd and run these commands
- git checkout -B branch_name create and checkout a new branch
- git add . stage your changes
- git commit -m "your commit message" commit your changes
- git push origin branch_name push changes to github
Go to your fork and click on the popup saying "Compare & Pull Request"
Describe the issue you fixed and how you did it and click on make a PR.
Wait for the reviewers to approve and merge it.