Android App

I am taking over the android app after josh got it up and running. I have been changing the GUI to better fit google's material design outlines to give the app a more professional look and intuitive user experience. I also just added the functionality for creating a party on the app itself, which is helping us move away from needing to use the website.

UI progress

This week I finished up making a UI, resolved some problems I was having with page navigation and started working on using the Youtube data API.

MeNext - Windows Phone

Hello! I'm currently working on MeNext for Windows Phone. I have spent the first couple of weeks setting up a proper development environment on my computer and just generally educating myself on app development basics. I'm working in C# and xaml and using (obviously) Visual Studio to develop in. As of right now, I have created a dummy frame for the "parties" screen and played around with some of the development tools and features in VS.

iOS Update 2-21-15

The first iOS changes I'll be making are refactoring login and adding Realm support to give a more fluid UX.  I'm learning a bunch about making a more professional application and doing things the "right" way.  I'm happy to actually start using git as I should have been all along.

Short and sweet this time,

-Jim

Back in the saddle: Spring 2015

Hey guys,

MeNext is back and we've already started working for this coming semester.  We've taken on two new members, Dennis and Kit, and we're really excited to give big updates on all of our platforms this semester.  New features will be coming soon, so keep an eye out and it'll be a great semester.

Thus far on iOS, I've cleaned up a bunch of code and cleaned the file structure up a whole bunch.  Android will be passed off to Dennis Fogerty who will be adding features and improving design.  Kit will be heading up the Windows Phone app for us.  Josh will be on back-end, without the distraction of Android and Justin will be on web front end, making a better landing page and a "Welcome to MeNext here's how to get started" page.

We're really excited for this semester.

-Jim

100 Users!

We just cracked 100 users last night thanks to our friends at Fordham University partying hard!  Over winter break, I plan to do some much needed polishing on the Android app and adding random extra functionality to the back end.  I am interested in implementing private parties that require a password to join on the front end as the back end was completed some time ago.    I also plan to address the issue of a login only lasting for a couple hours.  Maybe I will add websockets.  The websockets are not a priority right now because the site seems to be handling our current traffic well.  The websockets are a priority, however, for us to complete a number of future functionalities we wanted like keeping the time synced across devices and volume control over votes.

iOS Update

Since we got approved as a Facebook app (meaning we can finally ship Facebook login to users), I have worked towards getting that set up for everyone and it's working wonderfully!  Even better news, we've got an approved beta build and testing set up.  So for HackRPI I will be pushing the app to up to 1000 testers!  So that's really exciting.

Things to fix: QR Code reader needs a back button.  Joining still doesn't work right.  Fix that.

Otherwise, looking really great!

-Jim