Team Echidna Application Development Blog

Hello All, We here at on the PicSpot Dev team have been pretty busy over the past week implementing the remaining core features into the app. We have made quite a few changes on both the front and back ends in order to put these new features into a usable state. The biggest two features that we had added this week were a separate screen to view other user's spots that does not allow for any changes to be made if you are not the discoverer, as well as the ability to upload pictures from your device and store them as a thumbnail for the Spot. While the first feature was relatively straightforward, we had a real tough time getting the photo uploading implemented which made the final product feel that much better. With the culmination of multiple weeks worth of work on that one single feature, a much needed sigh of relief was let out knowing that we now have it done and have the experience already to implement the same feature for the profile slides. With most of the core functio...

Hello all, this week marks the due date of our first demo of the application! As promised, our dev team did actually manage to get some key functions in place while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the last couple missing major functions. The major functionalities that Team Echidna has managed to include in this first demo are: Ability for users to register with an email to then have their "spots" credited to them as Founders! This includes user sign in, registry, and sign out functions. Spots are now saved to the firebase database. Ability to view created spots and have the spot information populated. This includes the spot name, description, and location information. Some basic user information is now saved in the database which will be used to populate Profiles later on. Users can now test the "Upload" picture ability to now upload pictures from their camera roll. Look forward to having pictures saved with the spot, and the ability to take a pict...