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iOS app to inform UT Students about on going events and org meetings
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newsUT Team - README

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# newsUT



## Table of Contents

1. [Overview](#Overview)

2. [Product Spec](#Product-Spec)

3. [Wireframes](#Wireframes)

4. [Schema](#Schema)

5. [Updates](#Updates)



## Overview

### Description

An app that allows users to read news articles from UT News sites such as the Daily Texan and see events going on by clubs.



### App Evaluation

[Evaluation of your app across the following attributes]

- **Category:** News & Social

- **Mobile:** iOS

- **Story:** 

- **Market:** UT Austin students

- **Habit:**

- **Scope:** Social and news platform for UT



## Product Spec



### 1. User Stories (Required and Optional)



**Required Must-have Stories**



* User can login and logout

* User can use app without an account

* Different accounts (Regular user and a UT Organization)

* Feed of news articles

* Option to post an event (UT Organization only)

* Option to follow a UT Organization (Regular user only)



**Optional Nice-to-have Stories**



* Be able to save news articles

* See a map of events

* Navigate and sort articles by type

* Search for articles



### 2. Screen Archetypes



* Initial Login Screen

    * New user/UT org can sign up, login, or skip and use app without account

* Home Screen

    * Feed of news, events, and sports articles and news

    * Sort and navigate articles by type (optional)

    * Think Facebook feed

* Upcoming Events Feed

    * Feed of upcoming events

    * Calendar (optional)

* Intramural Sports Homepage (optional)

    * List teams and upcoming games

* Newsletters

    * List newsletters from orgs that user follows

    * For UT Orgs, post events option

* Single Newsletter

    * Displays a specific newsletter

* Browse/Search Clubs

    * Browse and search through UT clubs and organizations

    * Think Instagram Explore page

* Single Event Page

    * Details on upcoming event 

* Page for each UT Org/Club

    * Find information on club

    * Follow button for regular user to follow the org

* Settings

    * Contains Sign Up/Login/Logout



### 3. Navigation



**Tab Navigation** (Tab to Screen)



* Home Screen

* Upcoming Events Feed

* Intramural Sports Homepage (optional)

* Newsletters

* Browse/Search Clubs



**Flow Navigation** (Screen to Screen)



* Initial Login Screen

   * Tab View Controller

      * Home Screen

          * Single Event Page

* Upcoming Events Feed

   * Single Event Page

* Browse/Search Clubs

   * Settings

   * Page for each UT Org/Club

* Newsletters

   * Single Newsletter

* Single Event Page

    * Page for each UT Org/Club



## Wireframes (Digital Mockup) 




### [BONUS] Interactive Prototype



## Schema 



### Models

#### User

| Property | Type 

| -------- | -------- 

| Username     | String |

| Password    | String |

| Favorited Articles     | Array | 

| Favorited Events     | Array |

| Subcribed Orgs    | Array  |



#### Event

| Property | Type 

| -------- | -------- 

| Title     | String |

| Description   | String |

| Date     | String | 

| Image    | UIImage |

| Link to Tickets    | URL  |

| Location   | Map Location |

| Users going   | Array  |

| Host   | User  |

#### Organization (Subclass of User)

| Property | Type 

| -------- | -------- 

| Name     | String |

| Description   | String |

| Profile Image    | UIImage | 



#### Article

| Property | Type 

| -------- | -------- 

| Title     | String |

| Content   | String |

| Date     | String | 

| Images    | UIImage Array|

| Link to Article    | URL  |

| Author  | String |

| Publisher   | Org |



### Networking

- Article Feed

    - (Read/GET)

- Events Feed

    - (Read/GET)

- Create Event

    - (Create/POST) Create new event (Orgs only)

- Event View

    - (Create/GET) Save an event

    - (Delete) Delete saved event

    - (Update/Put) Edit event (Orgs only)

- Article View

    - (Create/GET) Save an article

    - (Delete) Delete saved article

- Profile View

    - (Read/GET) Logged in user

    - (Update/PUT) Update user info



## Updates

### Sprint1 - (Week 10)

- Created project

- Created the basic navigation

- Setup table views for the Home feed and Events feed

- Plan for next week

   - Meet to work together

   - Setup the Parse database

   - Create login

   - Begin development of different pages

- Basic navigation image:







## Final

### Completed

- [x] Logging in and logging out

- [x] Creating an account

- [x] Tab bar navigation

- [x] Custom auto layout UI that looks industry professional

- [x] Ability to save an event

- [x] Ability to view event

- [x] Ability to create and post an event

### To Do for Future

- [] Implement news articles tab, newsletters tab, and discover/search tab

- [] Fix image bug with events in parse backend

- [] Add maps ability for location

- [] Add UIWebview ability to get tickets for events

- [] Add variation of accounts and ability to follow organization accounts