Final Project - Sum of Us

Sum of Us is an Android app that allows a user to view, sign and share a campaing (or petition) sponsored by the Non-profit organization Sum of Us. The app utilizes data from the non-profit organization.

Time spent: 1 hours spent in total

User Stories

The following functionality is proposed for implementation:

• Administrator can create a campaign
• Administrator can attach a picture to the campaign
• Administrator can send a Push Notification to registered users of a new campaigned available
• User can view a listing of campaigns
• User can view details on a single campaign
• User can sign in / up to perform actions on campaigns
• User can mark perform the following actions on a campaign:
  • Mark as favorite, unfavorite
  • Sign campaign
  • Share through Facebook and Twitter campaign link
• User can view a summary of his or her favorited, signed or shared campaigns
• User can navigate to view their own profile
  • User can modify profile information
• User can make a donation to Sum of Us
• Settings and preferences allow the user to sign a petition by tapping on a 'Sign' button (perhaps a heart or a star) without having to confirm?

The following optional features could be implemented in a future release:

• User can locate campaigns based on geographical location, i.e. by city, state, country
• Allow offline reading on favorite campaigns
• Allow recurring donations
  • User can cancel a recurring donation to Sum of Us
• User can search for campaigns
  • User can browse campaign categories

Video Walkthrough

Not available yet.

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

Open-source libraries used

• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Picasso - Image loading and caching library for Android

License

Copyright [2015] [Codepath students: Denys, Alberto, and Andres]

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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