CAPSTONE

Dorm room wall
- Social networking appfor college students
- Bullentin board with all user feed
  - posts merged on wall(bullentin borard)
  - plan/status for the day
  - updates on academic ventures in the day(classes, assignments, meals)
  - social activity updates
  - picture posting capabilities
  - location update(based on user preference)

DORM ROOM WALL

Overview
Product Spec
Wireframes
Schema

Overview

Description

This app allows for a user to post and relate to other students within school by providing a social networking platform service for college students.

App Evaluation

Category: Social networking
Mobile: Functionality would be limited to mobile devices
Story: This app allows users to connect with other students through posts of daily life categories on a personalised 'wall'
Market: Any individual within a college could choose to use this app
Habit: This app could be used as often as the user want
Scope: This app would initially be limited within specific schools but could be expanded to be a social network for all college students

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

[X] User can login, register and sign out [X] User can add images to dorm room wall [X] User can view location functionalities(current location, other location displayed on wall) [X] User can track location in real time [X] User profiles [X] User can view and like walls [X] User can view walls in airplane mode, or without connection

Optional Nice-to-have Stories

Auto suggest other people who have signed up based on classes, halls, location, preferences
Trending locations/ dorm room walls
User can customise dorm room wall based on predetermined templates/ or toggle picture arrangements
User can view a history of their walls
Create statuses to disappear within 24 hours
User can tap on wall components for details

2. Screen Archetypes

Login Screen
- User can login
  - FB, email
Registration Screen
- User can create a new account
- Create preferences, interests
Home page
- User can view home feed, other walls
- User can view, like or follow other wall accounts
Profile page
- User can view profile page with username, followers (not based on counts), wall interaction level from other people
My Wall page
- User can upload posts components onto the wall
- User can modify arrangement of wall components(stretch feature)
- User can share wall to follwers
Chat page
- User can see a list of conversations and create new conversations with followers (to prevent random chats from others except in comments)
Update page
- User can update preferences, add categories, etc
- User can view and change current status
- User can notify group of change
Settings page
- Change profile details
- User can customise wall interface

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)

[X] Home Feed [X] My wall

Chat

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

Login Screen => Home
Registration Screen => Home
Home Screen => Chat Screen => Profile Screen
Profile Screen => Settings => My wall screen
My Wall Screen => Home (after posting) => Share screen => Customise screen
User Wall Screen => Chat screen (of specific user) => Profile of user screen

Wireframes

[BONUS] Digital Wireframes & Mockups

[BONUS] Interactive Prototype

Schema

Models

[X] Wall [X] User (from parse) [X] Expiring Wall

Networking

Parse Network Requests
Home feed Screen
- (Read/GET)Query all walls that the user follows
- (Create/WALL) Create new like on wall
- (Create/WALL) Create new comment on wall
- (Delete) Remove existing like or comment
My Wall Screen
- (Create/WALL) Create new wall
- (Update/WALL) Edit wall
- (Delete/WALL) Remove existing wall
Profile Screen
- (Read/GET)Query logged in user object
- (Update/PUT) Update user profile image

[Create basic snippets for each Parse network request]

Home feed Screen

(Read/GET)Query all walls that the user follows

PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Wall"];
[query includeKey:@"user"];
[query whereKey:@"school" equalTo:@"Stanford"];
[query orderByDescending:@"createdAt"];
[query findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSArray *walls, NSError *error) {
if (walls != nil) {
    NSLog(@"Retrieved walls successfully!!");
} else {
    NSLog(@"%@", error.localizedDescription);
}
}];

(Create/WALL) Create new like on wall


PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Wall"];
[query getObjectInBackgroundWithId:@"WALL_USER_ID" block:^(PFObject *wall, NSError *error) {
if (!error) {
// Success!
// update like count for that user
} else {
// Failure!
}
}];

(Create/WALL) Create new comment on wall
- Similar to above
(Delete) Remove existing like or comment
- PFQuery query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Wall"]; [query getObjectInBackgroundWithId:@"WALL_USER_ID" block:^(PFObject wall, NSError *error) { if (!error) { // Success! // remove like for user (given previous like) } else { // Failure! } }];

My Wall Screen

(Create/WALL) Create new wall

PFObject *newWall = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"Wall"];
newWall[@"text"] = self.messageField.text;
newWall[@"user"] = PFUser.currentUser;
[newWall saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError * error) {
    if (succeeded) {
        NSLog(@"The wall was saved!");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Problem saving wall: %@", error.localizedDescription);
    }
}];

(Update/WALL) Edit wall

PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Wall"];
[query getObjectInBackgroundWithId:@"WALL_USER_ID"
                             block:^(PFObject *wall, NSError *error) {
    // change wall details
    [wall saveInBackground];
}];

(Delete/WALL) Remove existing wall

Profile Screen

(Read/GET)Query logged in user object

PFUser *currentUser = [PFUser currentUser];
    if (currentUser) {
        // retrieve information
    } else {
        // do something else
    }

(Update/PUT) Update user profile image

PFUser *user = [PFUser currentUser];
    user[@"profilePicture"] = [self getPFFileFromImage:self.profilePicture.image];
    [user saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError * _Nullable error) {
        if (succeeded) {
            NSLog(@"This worked!");
        }
    }];