Budget Friend is made to demonstrate a budget handling application, where you can get a better control of your economy. The application aids budgeting as well as accounting.
This is a screen dump of the main page of the application.
The main menu includes the 4 functions: budget calculator, budget handler, receipt gallery and an overview over an average norwegian budget.
The application is a standalone Java application, desktop application. To install and download Budget Friend, follow the installation manual. The application is also able to keep persistent data in local files.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| v0.1 | Created a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), using Java. This means only the bare minimum that is needed for the product to be usable. |
| v0.2 | Further development and make the functionality relatively free of bugs. Present to product owner, user tests and documentation. |
| v0.3 | Finishing the application, and all attachment and documentation as well. |
The project is a tool to help private individuals or small businesses'. This means by getting an overview of income and expenses to help the user to improve their economy. The application made in this project, Budget Friend, is able to display an overview of their economy, help with economic related choices, budgets and accounting.
The project is written with Java, CSS for styling and the view is generated by JavaFX.
The project does not make use of JavaFXML or SceneBuilder, but builds the GUI from within the Java code.
- General JavaFX structure: Stage, Scene, SceneGraph, Nodes etc.
- Event handling, using Lambda
- Buttons with unique functionalities
- File handling: import/export to a .txt-file with the budget-format, to keep persistent data in local files.
The application had a few challenges when changing scenes. This included the window size went back to default when changing scenes. A solution was achieved by creating a method to store the size of the scene, before changing the window.
For further development and improvements, the application will include a method to keep persistent data from the recipes gallery in local file as well. By implement this function, the added recipes will not be lost when closing the application.
Make sure you already have JRE (Java Runtime Environment) already downloaded.
- Get a link to the installation by one project participant or the Installation manual found in the GitLab Wiki page. Click here to go to the Wiki and a more detailed installation manual.
- Go to your file explorer and double-click on the newly downloaded "Budget_Friend.exe" program.
- If a pop-up dialog requires a JDE, even if you already installed it, go to step 4.
- Open your "terminal" program, and type these following codes: first type cd downloads, and then java -jar .\Budget_Friend.exe.
When you open the application, you will see the Main Page with the Main Menu. This is where you can access all the main features of the application. The four buttons will take you to the different pages that this application contains. You can return to the Main Menu at any time by clicking on the “Main Menu” button on the different pages. To exit the application, you can click on the “Exit” button.
To get a more detailed user manual click here and select the user manual from the menu.
Product owner: Radino Dizza Mahendra.
Project participants: Birgitte Louise Vik, Julia Vik Remøy, Lars Mikael Barstad Løvold, Vegard Arnesen Mytting, Veronika Lynnes Rød.