newsUT Team - README

newsUT

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Wireframes
4. Schema
5. Updates

Overview

Description

An app that allows users to read news articles from UT News sites such as the Daily Texan and see events going on by clubs.

App Evaluation

[Evaluation of your app across the following attributes]

• Category: News & Social
• Mobile: iOS
• Story:
• Market: UT Austin students
• Habit:
• Scope: Social and news platform for UT

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

• User can login and logout
• User can use app without an account
• Different accounts (Regular user and a UT Organization)
• Feed of news articles
• Option to post an event (UT Organization only)
• Option to follow a UT Organization (Regular user only)

Optional Nice-to-have Stories

• Be able to save news articles
• See a map of events
• Navigate and sort articles by type
• Search for articles

2. Screen Archetypes

• Initial Login Screen
  • New user/UT org can sign up, login, or skip and use app without account
• Home Screen
  • Feed of news, events, and sports articles and news
  • Sort and navigate articles by type (optional)
  • Think Facebook feed
• Upcoming Events Feed
  • Feed of upcoming events
  • Calendar (optional)
• Intramural Sports Homepage (optional)
  • List teams and upcoming games
• Newsletters
  • List newsletters from orgs that user follows
  • For UT Orgs, post events option
• Single Newsletter
  • Displays a specific newsletter
• Browse/Search Clubs
  • Browse and search through UT clubs and organizations
  • Think Instagram Explore page
• Single Event Page
  • Details on upcoming event
• Page for each UT Org/Club
  • Find information on club
  • Follow button for regular user to follow the org
• Settings
  • Contains Sign Up/Login/Logout

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)

• Home Screen
• Upcoming Events Feed
• Intramural Sports Homepage (optional)
• Newsletters
• Browse/Search Clubs

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Initial Login Screen
  • Tab View Controller
    • Home Screen
      • Single Event Page
• Upcoming Events Feed
  • Single Event Page
• Browse/Search Clubs
  • Settings
  • Page for each UT Org/Club
• Newsletters
  • Single Newsletter
• Single Event Page
  • Page for each UT Org/Club

Wireframes (Digital Mockup)

[BONUS] Interactive Prototype

Schema

Models

User

Event

Organization (Subclass of User)

Article

Networking

• Article Feed
  • (Read/GET)
• Events Feed
  • (Read/GET)
• Create Event
  • (Create/POST) Create new event (Orgs only)
• Event View
  • (Create/GET) Save an event
  • (Delete) Delete saved event
  • (Update/Put) Edit event (Orgs only)
• Article View
  • (Create/GET) Save an article
  • (Delete) Delete saved article
• Profile View
  • (Read/GET) Logged in user
  • (Update/PUT) Update user info

Updates

Sprint1 - (Week 10)

• Created project
• Created the basic navigation
• Setup table views for the Home feed and Events feed
• Plan for next week
  • Meet to work together
  • Setup the Parse database
  • Create login
  • Begin development of different pages
• Basic navigation image:
  

Final

Completed

• [x] Logging in and logging out
• [x] Creating an account
• [x] Tab bar navigation
• [x] Custom auto layout UI that looks industry professional
• [x] Ability to save an event
• [x] Ability to view event
• [x] Ability to create and post an event

  To Do for Future

• [] Implement news articles tab, newsletters tab, and discover/search tab
• [] Fix image bug with events in parse backend
• [] Add maps ability for location
• [] Add UIWebview ability to get tickets for events
• [] Add variation of accounts and ability to follow organization accounts