golf-drill-challenge-app

About

This app is designed for the Oregon State University Mens' Golf Team. The app aims at providing a modern approach at managing, sharing, and assigning drills, as well as tracking progress across the team. The app enables coaches to upload drills accompanied with media in advance, and assign them to players. Players can then view drills, with the corresponding directions and media, and upload their scores as they complete drills. Coaches can view player data as a whole, or zone in on an individual players performance.

Tooling and Environment

Our app client is built using React Native and Expo, and we process data and authentication via Google Firebase.

In order to simplify development, some notable libraries we utilize include:

• TanStack Query
• Axios And some extensions we recommend are:
• Prettier

To begin developing:

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

3. Install the Expo Go app on a physical device

   • Download on iOS
   • Download on Android

   OR

   Use an emulator such as the iOS Simulator, or the Android Studio Emulator.

   Note about running on Android Studio Emulator

   There is a known bug that prevents users from using the Sign-in with Google functionality. To bypass this, the emulator must be run from the command line with a flag disabling the Vulkan feature. Read this article to learn how to run the emulator from the command line: (https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-commandline), And this article on the flag to disable the Vulkan feature: (https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator-troubleshooting#error:-%60vulkan-1.dll)

4. Start the development server

   npx expo start
   

   OR if your WIFI network does not support peer to peer:

   npx expo start --tunnel
   

   Learn more about tunneling here

System Architecture

Our app is seperated into 2 main pieces, a client and a backend as a service, consisting of various Google Firebase services.

Below is a diagram showing the overall design of the application:

Roadmap

Some unrealized features that can be work on include:

• Notification on drill being assigned to a user.
• expanded data viewing and parsing for both coaches and players in individual view.
• Random distance generation aid for drill creation.

Other improvements (non-features) that can be worked on include:

• Better integration and consolidation of player/coach screens.
• Better re-use of components shared among both type of users.
• Extraction and consolidation of styles and theming elements to ensure consistency and ease of adaptability and maintainability for changes.
• Consolidation of authentication and user data propagation.
• Improved state management (possibly using redux or React Reducers with native Context API).

Credits

Developed by:

• Emmanuel Moncada (@efmmoncada)
• Eduardo Gonzalez (@Eduardo-Gonz)
• Kathleen Ashley (@srslyashh)
• Jermaine Lara (@Jermainelr)
• Getaneh Kudna (@Getaneh90)
• Brendan Baldocchi (@BrendanBaldocchi2)