GetTip() is a social media application for lifehacks and tips, developed for the purpose of our programming courses in the Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Managment and Science Technology.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76YI5TjrEg)
- Firstly, pull the project from our repository
- Make sure to be in the root directory
- To build the project run the command:
mvn clean compile assembly:single
This will generate a jar file with all the dependencies which can be used.
- Move tipme-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar to the
rootdirectory - Then, type:
java -cp tipme-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar kourpa.Main
- Alternatively, you can run the
mainmethod inMain.javain your chosen IDE, e.g.IntelliJ.
When you run the .jar file or main method the frame of Register appears. If it is the first time you open the app then you must create a new acccount, else you can can press the Login button to connect to your existing account. When you submit your infos, you are moving to the HomePage section of the App where you can see posts from other users for the interests you submitted and, as well, like them and dislike them.
The menu in the upper body of the application can navigate you through the different functionalities. The home icon represents the homepage, the magnifying glass represents the search section and person icon is for MyProfile section. Lastly, there is a row icon for the Upload.
In Search, there are many categories for tips to find, such as Nature, Sports and Science. When the user presses a category he only sees post from his choice. Next, in MyProfile the user can change his personal infos and the interests that were submitted in Register and can see his/her posts. Finally, in Upload you can publish your own tips/lifehacks, as long as it is less than 250 charachters. Generally, small posts are preferable.
✅ Features:
- Learning new things and lifehacks through posts
- Liking and disliking things
- Selecting specific interests to appear in Homepage
- Search for a certain category in Search section
- Review the history of your posts
src folderhas the java code of our project. It consists of 11 classes and the respective test classes.target folderhouses all output of the build.Settings and vs.codecontains files so that the project can be compatible with eclipse and VSC..github/workflowscontains the yml file that enables github actionsOutside of any folderexists the database the pom.xml and some other files.
In the next graph you can see how our classes are related through the action that happen in the app (UML state)
Our team tried to utilize the capabilities of SQLite. The data are processed and stored through that. Our database has 4 tables with a summary of 22 attributes. The entities are User, likes, dislikes and Posts.
