Lab Report Week 6

Project Development Weekly Progress Report

Team Name: Web Info Aggregator

Date: 14.11.2023

Progress Summary

This week On the backend,

We developed CRUD APIs for Interest Area and Post which are two main components of the project. Also developed all dependency classes of Interest Area and Post. They include nested interest area related classes, wiki related classes related classes. We also created wiki services and related classes to allow user label their posts and interest areas using wiki tags. Furthermore, Comment entity is implemented.

On the Web side,

We’ve implemented all Post views except the “Update Post view”. We now have a working geolocation modal that allows the user to select point on map and select one of the available addresses around that point.

On the Mobile side,

We implemented explore page for unauthenticated visitors. We’ve also implemented post creation, post editing and post details views. Developed home screen for authenticated users.

Next week,

For front-end and mobile, we will implement Interest Area related pages to our project. Furthermore, the CRUD endpoints for Posts and Interest Areas which were implemented by our back-end team will be integrated.

For back-end,

What was planned for the week? How did it go?

Description	Issue	Assignee	Due	Artifact	Estimated Duration	Actual Duration
Backend - Tag Options API	#352	Baki	14.11.2023	#363	3hr	3hr
Backend - Create Post CRUD APIs	#334	Bahadır	14.11.2023	#372	3hr	6hr
Backend - Create Interest Area CRUD APIs	#335	Baki	14.11.2023		3hr
Backend - Comment Model and CRUD APIs	#334	Bahadır	14.11.2023	#371	3hr	2hr
Mobile - Visitor Bottom Bar	#344	Ömer	14.11.2023	#359	1hr	0.5hr
Mobile - Member Home Page	#345	Furkan	14.11.2023	#362	4hr	3hr
Mobile - Visitor Explore Page	#346	Begüm	14.11.2023	#358	4hr	4hr
Mobile - Create Post Page	#348	Furkan	14.11.2023	#361	4hr	3hr
Mobile - Edit Post Page	#349	Enes	14.11.2023	#366	4hr	4hr
Mobile - Post Details	#351	Meriç, Ömer	14.11.2023	#367	4hr	5hr
Mobile - Member Post Page	#353	Ömer	14.11.2023	#369	3hr	1hr
Mobile - Visitor Post Page	#354	Ömer	14.11.2023	#369	3hr	1hr
Web - Create Post View	#338	Bahri	14.11.2023	#365	3hr	4hr
Web - Detailed Post View	#339	Sude	14.11.2023	#368	3hr	3hr
Web - Update Post View	#343	Egemen	14.11.2023		2hr	Incomplete
Web - Geolocation View	#347	Egemen	14.11.2023	#383	2hr	6hr
Web - Timeline View	340	Miraç	14.11.2023		1hr	Incomplete
Add Geolocation UI to Mockups	#350	Sude	11.11.2023	—	2hr	Incomplete

Completed tasks that were not planned for the week

Description	Issue	Assignee	Due	Artifact	Actual Duration
Mobile -Custom Appbar	#341	Ömer	14.11.2023	#360	0.5hr

Planned vs. Actual

In the web side, geolocation views took more time than expected due to some problems. This caused some delays in our plans. We will need to work harder moving forward. On backend side everything was on plan. We neither did less nor more. We created CRUD APIs and models for Interest Areas and Posts which are two main components of the project. This week was an important milestone for backend side and we successfully accomplished our tasks.

Your plans for the next week

Description	Issue	Assignee	Due	Estimated Duration
Backend - Add Access Level Management	#350	Bahadır	21.11.2023	8hr
Backend - Profile Page API	#387	Baki	21.11.2023	4hr
Backend - Create Search Mechanism	#388	Baki	21.11.2023	6hr
Mobile - Create Interest Area Page	#377	Meriç	21.11.2023	5hr
Mobile - Edit Interest Area Page	#374	Furkan	21.11.2023	3hr
Mobile - Interest Area - Member	#375	Begüm	21.11.2023	4hr
Mobile - Interest Area - Visitor	#376	Enes	21.11.2023	4hr
Mobile - Posts CRUD Endpoints Integration	#378	Ömer	21.11.2023	5hr
Mobile - Interest Areas CRUD Endpoints Integration	#379	Ömer	21.11.2023	5hr
Web - Update Post View	#343	Egemen	21.11.2023	1hr
Web - Timeline View	#340	Miraç	21.11.2023	2hr
Web - Posts CRUD Endpoints Integration	#380		21.11.2023	3hr
Web - Create Interest Area Page	#381		21.11.2023	3hr
Web - Interest Area Visitor Page	#382	Miraç	21.11.2023	3hr
Web - Interest Area Member Page	#384		21.11.2023	3hr
Edit Mockups - Add Geolocation to Mockups	#350	Sude	21.11.2023	2hr

Risks

Due to the lack of sufficient clarity in the descriptions of the issues, there is a potential difficulty for the project team members to comprehend (over time, etc.).

UX design choices

• On the web side, we decided that it would be ugly to have an open map under every post when said posts have locations attached to them and it would definitely reduce UX because users would have to navigate around some big map in order to experience the rest of the app. That is why, we decided to make it so that the location is only written as a text on the post view and the user can simply click a button so that a modal will pop up and show the map in it.
• On the mobile side, on our mockups for ‘Create Post Page’, our input fields were composed of two parts; the first one was an explanatory short text (label) about our input, and next to that we had an input field with a placeholder. Since mobile phones are already small in size and design i mentioned caused non-aligned input fields, we decided to use only input fields. On that input field we are using the ‘Label’ property which explains what does input field stands for and when the user clicks that input field, the label shrinks.
• On the mobile side, instead of a side menu structure, we used a sophisticated bottom navigation bar with a clean tab bar design. We did not want to make an unnecessary side menu design that fills the screen by a ridiculous portion with not much to serve, instead, we made a simple and recognizable bottom navigation bar that users can easily use to navigate around our application.

UX Elements we wish we had

• We had to remove the private chat function from our requirements because it would add a whole new complex structure to our project, for which we have no time or resources to spare. It could increase UX quality for the user because when users find others interested in similar areas as them, they could have shared some extra interests with each other, and invite others to their private interest areas even when they don’t know them in person.

Participants

Name	Participation
Bahadır Gezer	✅
Hasan Baki Küçükçakıroğlu	✅
Egemen Kaplan	✅
İbrahim Furkan Özçelik	✅
Ömer Faruk Çelik	✅
Begüm Yivli	✅
Enes Yıldız	❌
Sude Konyalıoğlu	✅
Bahri Alabey	✅
Miraç Öztürk	✅
Meriç Keskin	✅