giorio94 / booksbooth

Mobile Application Development - Course project

Books Booth

Books Booth is an Android application designed and developed as an assignment from the ''Mobile Application Development'' (a.y. 2017/2018) course taught at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). The team was composed by:

• Eugenio Gallea
• Marco Iorio
• Stefano Malacrino
• Nunzio Turco

Assignment

Create an Android application that helps people to share books. It must have the following features:

• The application should easily allow users to sign up and setup a basic profile.
• Users can make books available for sharing, providing all the relevant pieces of information by accessing some shared database.
• Users can search for shared books and get in contact, via the app, with the book owner in order to arrange the withdrawal and successive return.
• As a consequence of each sharing, users' reputation must be updated.

Back-end

The project relies, for its back-end, on Firebase, a development platform owned and managed by Google that provides a plethora of ready-to-use tools and services. In particular, we exploited

• Firebase Authentication, for a smooth sign in experience;
• Realtime Database, a NoSQL database used to keep track of all pieces of information;
• Firestore, to store multimedia contents;
• Cloud Functions, to trigger specific actions when an event occurs.

Additionally, we exploited Algolia, a powerful search-as-a-service solution, to allow users to look for their desired books in a simple and effective way.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.