Carpooling App

Yahoo, Introduction to Android - Group Project

Description

The purpose of this app is to help people at Yahoo find a way to carpool together

User stories

Driver user stories

1. As a driver, I want to offer riders to other Yahoo employees that live near my place so that I can save money, have a more enjoyable ride and be home quicker by taking the carpool lane
2. As a driver, I want to get notified when someone is interested to ride with me
3. As a driver, I want to be able to review who will be riding back with me
4. As a driver, I want to accept/reject potential ride buddies

Passenger user stories

1. As a passenger, I want to find a ride back so that I can come back home
2. As a passenger, I want to get notified if a driver accepted to offer me a spot on his/her vehicule

Release notes

TODO

• Nice to have for demo-day
  • Support offline mode
  • Protect app again unavailable / failed API requests
  • Code cleanup
    • Move all strings into res folder
    • Review the TODO I left in the code
  • Support landscape mode orientation
  • First attempt at push notification
  • Style buttons
• Update the action bar for both driver and passenger to include the Facebook icon of the authenticated user
  • FIXIT: Code is there but the actionBar does not render.

Version 1.00 (2/25/2014) - First release for project demo

• Implement sliding menu bar
• Added library support for
  • ActionBar Sherlock (http://actionbarsherlock.com/)
  • SlidingMenu (https://github.com/jfeinstein10/SlidingMenu)
• Add custom application icon
• Update ActionBar Tabs icons
• Animate icon to select role

Version 0.05 (2/24/2014)

• Bug fixes
  • Fix to exclude current driver for list of potential rides
  • Fix minor layout inconsistencies between activities
• Prevent fragment on a given activity to be reloaded if the data hasn't changed
• Add request status as part of the search result
• Replace Toast
  • when no passengers have been defined for the driver's ride
  • when no search results were found for the passenger's ride
• Implement progress bar for driver passenger list fragment
• Remove icon from action bar across all activities
• Style the action bar

Version 0.04 (2/20/2014)

• Bug fixes
  • Fix bug prevent to store large FacebookId into Parse
  • Fix bug preventing users to access all data store into Parse
• Implement progress bars for notification and ride search fragments
  • Create AsyncTasks to put process outside of the main UI Thread

Version 0.03 (2/19/2014)

• Implement story for the Driver to accept/reject passengers for his ride
• Implement a RotateImageButton class that leverage an animation to build a button from a image that will be rotated by 180 degrees

Version 0.02 (2/17/2014)

• Fix layout design issues (like misalignments of views)
• Implement Passenger's user stories
  • User can search for a ride
  • User can send a request to book a ride
  • User can read his/her notifications
• Implement a Generic Notifications view that is being reused by both drivers and passengers activities
• Simplify the Driver view into two tabs instead of three by merging fragments together
  • The main tab contain bot the ride and current passenger for the ride
• Code improvements
  • Use ParseAPI using Parse Model and remove ParseObjectSerializable interface that became irrelevant
  • Use Joda-Time API to parse Date
  • Various code cleanups

Version 0.01 (2/9/2014)

• Initial implementation of the application's models (Driver, Passenger, Ride)
• Initial integration with Facebook SDK to retrieve user related information
• Initial integration with Parse API to persist data
• Implemented Driver Activity with three different fragments
  • Fragment: DriverRideDetailsFragment: fully implemented
    • Implemented ability to save the ride
    • Implemented ability to load the ride (if it has been previously saved)
    • Implemented ability to delete the ride (if it has been previsouly saved)
  • Fragment: DriverPassengerListFragment: partially implemented using fake data
  • Fragment: DriverGuestNotifications: not implemented