The First Screen
It’s conventional to start building anything with a plan and there goes a prequel of stories that define the structure of my app, in its entirety.
Look out for Beneath the Cover sections of this blog to unveil the underlying technology.
My Speculations
If the Login/Register Page doesn’t count for a screen in scope of the internship, it’s never a futile proposal to design one that’s a starter for a fresher.
I can put some words into what my app is all about with some groovy, that catches the user attention, esp. when it comes to android apps.
The Starter
I say what the user can put inside the app.
I can also talk about what the app offers. It’s basically a social media platform with friends tuning into each others’ song collections. They comment on songs and tag them with likes.
Then, I go further into asking the user if he’s got an user account with Crashz — yup, thats’ my app’s brand name, by the way :) — or if he’s a fresher.
Beneath the Cover: I’ve used a viewpager to host the welcome screens. The first 2 screens are fragments instantiated from the above constrained blueprint. I’ve used a depth in transformer for the transition effects.
Fresher’s Way In
If you are a fresher, sign up for Crashz.
I’ve got the MSG91 Gateway setup for OAuth login via Mobile and for one-time mobile verification, which I recall from the last blogpost.
When prompted for OTP, just copy paste from your Messaging clipboard & Submit.
Cool, you are now into my Auth tables :)
Let’s Interact a Bit
The first screen in a First Look
I’m finally grazing the opening shots of my first screen. It’s imperative to get some basic user profile into the data tables, — esp. when it comes to Social Media apps — so that he is presented with some uniqueness essentially.
From my stories so far, it should be pretty obvious for how I do that.
What’s Identity and what’s personal?
You can be identified with your name, place of work or your city. But, sharing your emotions with music, life events and a bit about your hobbies is the personal side of you.
Users may feed on that part for their friends to know them better. But otherwise, I strictly don’t encourage people without self-note (on name, work & city) to be able to make friends or add songs or do anything at all with the app.
The Cliffhanger
Once you register and login for the first time, you get the edit profile screen.
It never takes you to your home screen until you fill the debated small piece of yourself, even when you restart the app.
Beneath the Cover: I’ve used intents to check on that. Once an user registers, I put a bool tag on a bundle object, and passed it with the intent to the sign in page. This tag indicates a first time login. If true, it takes the user to the Edit Profile and saves the tag into a SharedPreference. Even if you abort the app, leaving the page, you are still logged in & your tag is not flagged. So, you will revisit your profile nevertheless you lend the elementary--Who you are.
And once you save your profile, HomeUp Navigate to the back stack is set from thereon.
Happy Tuning and Posting.
A Special Tweak
In further as you update, the update queries are propagated to the correlative user record in the user table, if the tag is flagged(if tag is false, it’s first time — So, I do an insert). But the best part is, your data is written into a SharedPreference, retrieved and rendered for you everytime to visit the Edit Profile page.
You get to make some revisions of your personal stories and save them in no time :)
Pretty Cool ah.
For the Day
That’s it for the story of the day, which infact took me a week to cook :D
I’ve provided with links then and there for a better visual simulation of the underlying technology. More coming up. So long for next time :)
