Finishing up StuddyBuddy

Hey all!

We've been recently running into a few problems with development, but have since worked out most of the issues! One of the big issues happened after I created a toolbar. Nelly pushed afterwards but didn't pull first, and it completely wiped out my toolbar code. Creating a new one was extremely difficult because the layout had changed a bit. Not to mention, I couldn't even get the toolbar to show up for a while! After a long time trying to figure it out, I found out that Nelly put in a line of code to get rid of the toolbar while she was debugging! She apologized profusely, but I was just happy to find out what the problem was to be honest.

For some reason, the app does not run correctly on my phone when i try to upload it, but if Nelly tries to with her computer, it works fine. We are unsure as to why this is happening, and it makes it extremely hard for me to work on the application since I can't run it on my device. So while working on it, I usually have to push and then let Nelly use my phone to see if it is working correctly.

However, I was able to add a search bar to the toolbar after working on that for a while! The only reason that took so long is because the app isn't running on my phone when I try to upload it. The last thing we have left with development is some tidying up of code, fixing a few features, and then hopefully figuring out why I can't upload it but Nelly can!

Thanks for reading! -Alex

RecyclerView and Card View

This week we focused on getting the main page view ready.Our main page displays the information in cards that are populated appropriately on the page using recycle view. To support this we had to import the CardView and RecycleView libraries.  We intend on displaying all the discussions on one page. The user can filter the forum by searching for a  particular tag. Right now the cards are filled with dummy data that will later get filled once we get firebase integrated.

Getting Started

This app is meant to be used by students to find other students to study with. Ideally, it should be students in the same class working on an assignment and needs to work on it with the members of their class. Given that this app is to be used in an educational setting, we required the users to log in with their Gmail .edu account. The main page looks like this