SHG

SHG stands for self help group, which is mainly operated in indian rural areas. SHG is an android app that allows a user to manage expenses, groups and calculate interest. The app uses Splitwise REST API.

This app requires API key

To get API key, follow these steps.

• Head over to Splitwise.
• Signup and loging to your account.
• Go into myAccount.
• In "Advanced features section", click on your apps.
• In "Build your own app" section , create a new Application by filling required details, after this API key will be generated.
• Put your "Consumer Key" and "Consumer Secret" in app/build.gradle at specified place.
• Now, you are ready to explore.

Instructions for using this app

• Open app and login to splitwise account.
• Add some friends by menu options.
• your friend will get a mail for signup.
• Ask your friend to signup.
• Add some expenses in any friend detail view.
• Add some groups by same menu options.
• Add group members (friend) to group by group detail view menu.
• Add some expenses in any group detail view.
• Check for total balances for a group or a friend.
• your resistered friend can also use this app to add his expenses, and will be simplified to the balance amount between friends.
• All friend can see their real time balance and all expenses in any group and friend view.

Here are design docs and prototypes.

The following required functionality is completed:

• User can manage expenses.
• User can manage friends.
• User can manage expense groups.
• User can calculate interest.
• User validated through oAuth.
• App uses third party APIs to save its data on server.
• Multiple user share same real time data for better user experience and data persistency.

Open-source libraries used

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

Credits

Sharewise