The Great Augie Marketplace

With the world watching Team Bandicooot on the edge of their seats, it's been tough to dig through our idea notebooks, searching for that one software concept to rule them all. At long last, however, we believe we have found the application that will take the Augustana community by storm, and vastly improve the student experience at our wee liberal arts college.

Introducing....

The next... BIG... THING!
(Cue confetti cannons and fireworks, release box of doves, fire off a 21 gun salute to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now")

I asked for all of that to be in the budget, but Avash shut me down.

THE AUGIE MARKETPLACE!

An intuitive, easy to use marketplace app, making the buying/selling of goods at Augustana College stress free.
Team Bandicoot sat down and wrapped about what bothers us about going to school at Augustana. By and large, the most passionate response was the distaste for the augie book buyback process. Four bucks for a three-hundred dollar book? I'm only a math minor, but that doesn't seem to add up in any sort of reasonable manner. At least not for the guy who is suddenly out 296 clams.

So! Team Bandicoot decided to make an app where the buying and selling process of college goods can be streamlined and connect buyers to sellers.

You need a textbook and are looking for good alternatives to that three hundred dollar price tag? Look on augie marketplace.

Perhaps you have a mini fridge you don't want to lug out with you into the real world after senior years, but its got too much sentimental value to toss in a ditch. Find yourself someone who needs a mini fridge on Augie Marketplace.

Since Augie is such a small school, the connections will be people you know, meeting in places you know. So no more dealing with that messy postage and shipping, or guiltily hefting your TLA couch into a dumpster. Post it on Augie Marketplace! Get more bang for your buck, without the added stress, and continue to support the Augustana community by recirculating your stuff among the student population.

We at Team Bandicoot hope you, the reader, are as ludicrously psyched about this project as we are. Keep checking back for status updates on the apps development, and feel free to comment any features you would love to see implemented!

Now.... TO THE CODE!!!! (Keenan charges into the sunset on one of those Wells Fargo carriage horses)

...Once again, apparently not in the budget...

--Keenan

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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Firebase

I'm a sucker for a cliche blog post name. So sue me. Team Bandicoot has hit the ground running. Which if you are familiar with the anatomy of bandicoots, is tough. They have tiny little legs. Anyhoo: STEP 1 - The profiles Augie Marketplace will boast an easy to set up and maintain profile system, providing security to our users, while still allowing them to link up with other students of interest. For this purpose we will be using Firebase, which utilizes a Realtime Database system. First and foremost, ol' Augustana College loves their google platforms. Everything we do here in Rock'nRoll Island is based off a school issued email and password. It is essential that Augie marketplace can be accessed in the same way. So even before we attack the Firebase Database system to achieve real-time syncing between our clients, Avash "Firebase Face" Shrestha is working through a google sign in system so we can keep those Augie students happy and comf...

Post Demo RUSH

For those of you unfamiliar with the term rush, here's some bad google stock photos: Looks like our little AOL messenger guy there owes the other two money. Good luck with those stubby 2d legs, pal. ANYHOO. These images are important because it is an accurate depiction of what team Bandicoot will be doing with our brains and our computers for the next three weeks. Sprint numero uno went extremely well! But we can't get cocky. The responses were all positive. The idea is solid, and the functionality we have now earned us little to no criticism. Right now we are most concerned with making the app more efficient when it comes to finding certain products. We want the time period between when you log in to Augie Marketplace, and when you discover in the first chapter of you gen chem textbook that you should be an English major, to be as short as possible. We also realize that today's youth are flighty creatures with short attention spans. If it takes t...

A Picture Says a Thousand Lines of Code

The blogpost names do not improve from here on out, folks. But the Augie Marketplace sure does! To be fair it isn't too difficult of a leap from non-existent to existent when it comes to an Andorid app. But we are proud of how far our little project has come along. We are pleased to say the little code seedling we planted has grown into a beautiful android flower. We in Team Bandicoot realize one of the most subtle and overlooked aspects of any app is its aesthetic presentation. When we started this project, rule number one was simplicity and elegance, to provide the user with a comfortable shopping environment. This app is certainly utilitarian, and we want to honor that, though not at the expense of its image. So, here's a first look at our mockup, created in microsoft word, and what we have so far created in Android studio. This level of simplicity was what we shot for. Pretty, no? Simple, and the user experience would be one of familiarity. The app is so easy to g...

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