Big Red App for Android

Download?

• Download it from the Play Store here!

What

This is a native android application for Cornell students. Right now, you can use the app to:

• See what dining halls/cafes are open and what they are serving
• Navigate Cornell's buildings, bus stops, and bike racks
• See what libraries are open
• Discover events around campus
• Lookup people by net ID

We are using Kevin Chavez's API here (currently disabled). We also use the Cornell Open Data Initiative API here.

Objectives

• 100% free as in beer (no monetization) and free as in speech (open source).
• App: native Android, easy to use, good looking, minimal, clean.
• Code: well-commented, easy to maintain.

iOS?

• The iOS by Matthew Gharrity has halted development, but you can check it out here.

Contributing

• Pull requests are very welcome!
• See the issues page.
• Please post any issues for any questions / bug reports / ideas / etc. you have!
• If you are a beginner, please do not hesitate, as I am learning Android dev right now too.

Overview of the code

• Hopefully you find the comments within the code itself helpful (if not, add an Issue about it!), but for a birds-eye view of how it all works:
• The relevant files are in app/src/main.
• Find the activities inside here.
• MainActivity.java simply kicks off the DiningNowFragment.java fragment, which displays a webview of now.dining.cornell.edu.
• AboutFragment.java is a simple fragment to display meta-details about the app.
• All tabs within the navigation drawer are implemented as fragments, and follow a structure similar to that of DiningNowFragment.
• All GET requests are done through SingletonRequestQueue.java. It works using a RequestQueue. The basic idea is that at the very start (in MainActivity.java), a RequestQueue is started and stays around for the lifetime of the app. So, any time in the app process you can simply access it to add a request on to the queue.

Up and Running

1. Use Android Studio version >= 1.10
2. Clone this repository
3. Open AS, click "Open an existing Android Studio project"
4. Navigate to where you cloned this repository (it should have a special icon by it in the file browser)
5. Click Ok

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