Augustana Course Connection

 We made lots of progress this week! On Thursday of this week (April 22nd) we had our first sprint demo where every group showed off what they have accomplished so far in their team projects. It was really cool seeing where everyone was at on their projects and what everyone has been working on. For our group, we presented the newest version of our app that includes a working review feature! Attached to this post are two screenshots of the app during the process of leaving a review. The top-most picture is a picture of the current UI we have in place for leaving a review. You can enter the course you are reviewing, the rating out of five stars, the professor you had, and then an area for general comments. Once you hit the submit button, the review is entered into our Cloud Firestore database through Google Firebase. The second picture is the current basic UI to view reviews. We want to revamp it soon to look a bit more appealing and have a bit more functionality, but for the purpos...

 We had a busy week in our Senior Inquiry course. This week we presented the final product of our individual projects to the class. Now that we have presented the individual projects, all of our attention can turn to the group project. Lately we have been working on integrating Google Firebase into our project. We managed to get the Firebase authentication functionality working for our project so now users sign into the app using a Google account. We also have some rules in place so that only Augustana students may log in since that is the intended audience for the app. This was relatively easy to implement since all Augustana students have emails that follow the same format with their email ending in the year they enrolled at Augustana followed by the Augustana domain name (as an example, consider xxx17@augustana.edu). Our first "sprint demo" will be on Thursday, April 22nd so we want to have a bit more functionality in our app by then. More than likely, we will be trying to...

 Progress on the app has been relatively slow the past few days. We are entering our Easter Break here at Augustana College so the group members have been more focused on getting some much needed time off from our classes than making huge amounts of progress on our app. We also had a bit of a mishap with Github merging that we had to remedy before moving forward. That being said, we have still been working diligently. This week we worked a bit more on the Fragment idea to make different tabs to navigate to within the app and we also have been working on integrating Google Sign In into our app. Google Sign In has been giving us some problems, but we managed to get it working for at least one group member's device. We are not  exactly  sure what the problem is that's causing the Google Sign In to fail on other devices, but in an attempt to remedy that, we have been looking into integrating Firebase into our app. Firebase seems like a logical next step since it offers so man...