A technical blog

Hello, dear readers! This week I’m writing about a project that I’m currently developing with a group of other students. The project is a mobile application that’s going to help people find sports events near them. We already have planned all the features the application is going to have, but we still need to figure out how we’re going to handle user security and other important issues like version control.

The project itself is not going to have too many features, since we lack the resources to implement anything fancy, but we’re hoping the deliver a functional app that can prove itself useful to users. As mentioned before, the app’s main feature is to find sports events that are happening near the user. There’s six people in our group, so we are going to have to use some sort of version control to manage the project’s development better. Currently we’re set on using Github, since it seems very efficient way to manage different versions of our application and some of us have also used it before.

For user interface, we’re going to be using React Native framework. It’s very handy, since it allows the application to be launched on both iOS and Android. The quality of the app is not going to be as good as native applications that are made using e.g Swift or Java, but that’s the sacrifice we’re going to have to make in order to make our app more accessible.

Testing of the application is mainly done by our group and hopefully some other students that are willing to test our product. That’s the best we can do with our current available resources, but thankfully it should gather enough information about app’s user experience.

Thank you for reading and stay tuned for next week’s blog post. I’ll keep you updated on the project once we make some further progress.