Week 5

 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 many useful functions for us to use in our app. Our hope is also that Firebase will make it easier to manage Google account authentication across multiple devices. Below is a picture of the log in screen that now has a Google Sign In button at the bottom. This log in screen will likely be changed in the future, but this simple layout has been working fine for us so far.

The other picture shown above is what the Fragments look like so far. They allow a user to swipe between them to navigate between tabs. This has not changed much since last post including the fragments. 

As mentioned previously in this post, our next move on the app's development is the introduction of Firebase into our app. We also want to begin working on layouts for the Leaderboard, Reviews, and Forums tabs inside the app.