birajsilwal/online-marketplace

Android app: An online marketplace for students to buy and sell items with other college students.

Application title: myLobo

App motto: Study Smart

Contact information:

• Biraj Silwal
• [email protected]
• Personal website
• Twitter
• Github

Description of the app

myLobo is a simple yet powerful way to study smart.

Test accounts

You can either sign up to create new account for testing, or use below login information

• username: guest
• password: guest

Developer Bio

Hi! I am Biraj Silwal, developer of myLobo app. I'm a junior studying computer science and mathematics at UNM. In my free time I enjoy competitive programming, creating mobile apps, and attending online hackathones. I am passionate about techology and also interested in Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, and Robotics.

Other supporting information

• For the best experinece please use latest version of android operating system. API level more than 25 is highly recommended.
• After you login for the first time, it might take little bit longer to load contents in Marketplace and myLobos. So, you might have to wait ~10 seconds. Sorry, for an inconvinience.

Open-source libraries used

• Parse Server - Parse Server is an open source Backend-as-a-Service(BaaS) framework.
• Android Async HTTP - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
• Glide - Image loading and caching library for Android
• Picasso - A powerful image downloading and caching library for Android
• Parse SDK for Android - To get access to the Parse cloud platform from my android app. For more information about Parse, see the website
• Logging Interceptor - An OkHttp interceptor which logs HTTP request and response data.
• Bolts - Bolts is a collection of low-level libraries designed to make developing mobile apps easier. Bolts was designed by Parse and Facebook.
• Appcompat - AppCompat is a set of support libraries which can be used to make the apps developed with newer versions work with older versions.
• Material Design - Material Design is a visual language that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation of technology and science.
• Swipe-to-Refresh - Detects the vertical swipe, displays a distinctive progress bar, and triggers callback methods in your app.
• CircleImageView - Makes ImageView circular.
• Room - The Room persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
• Leonids - Leonids is a particle system library that works with the standard Android UI.
• Android Debug Database - Android Debug Database is a powerful library for debugging databases and shared preferences in Android applications.
• Android Room-Runtime - Room is a Database Object Mapping library that makes it easy to access database on Android applications.
• Apache Commons IO - The Apache Commons IO library contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, file comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more.
• image-zoom-view - Imageview zoom library for android. It's simple show image library.

API used

• Heroku - Heroku is a container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). Used Heroku to deploy, manage, scale my app.
• OpenWeather - Used OpenWeather API to access current weather data. Used free version. This API uses open data

Built With

• JAVA
• XML
• JSON

Screenshots

Acknowledgements

• Codepath.org
• Font Awesome
• Img Shields

License

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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