RebuApp
Application developed for my public High School.
RebuApp was an application that I developed in the middle 2014, I was 17 years old by that time. This app only was possible because the DroiDéx project, which gave me enough Android development experience to make it, together with my previous front-end, and the PHP and MySQL course that I was studying in that time.
The application idea was to have the time and agenda of all classrooms, for this the classroom spokesman would have a login and password, and the school coordinator (and I as application administrator) would have a special login in which could add new spokesmen, so whenever he had something new in the room of the agenda, the spokesman would add the event in the application and thus appeared in the application of other students who chose that classroom.
Since I had no back-end knowledge in the beginning of it’s developing, I used alternative stuff: Tumblr was the host for my pages, because HTML pages was possible in it, and JotForm, in an another Tumblr protected with a password in it, laos the spokesmen would get in touch with me through this so the I would add new stuff to the agendas. But in the later month I learned PHP and hat it all automated.
Taking advantage of an Word document containing all the library books, I also put in the database all of the school’s library books, making possible book searching from the app.
I spent all my 2014 December vacations trying to make native apps (until then, I only made WebView apps, you can see it’s source code on my GitHub), when I got it, launched the current Play Store RebuaApp version, with a lot of new features, the school that I made the app was an integral high school, the app until that day was messages from clubs (a class with groups of students with same interests) and electives (the same thing as a club but with a teacher mentoring), the spokesman could even send push notifications to the students when using their login. There were images from the school posters, the school canteen’s menu also was available in the app, official announcements, links of the school’s blog and newspaper also were available. The app has too an integrated dictionary and a notepad. I also build a web version of the app using Polymer (when it still was beta) to use the Material Design of the Android version and for the users of another system could access it. Last, but not least, everything of the app is into a Google Chrome Extension, including push notifications.
The idea was great (I was impressed remembering the features of it writing here hahaha), even more because was a public school, to spread I glued posts around the school, at strategic points, like next to the snack line:
It seemed an awesome idea, which had everything to succeed, and it really did for some time. But it depended on people who would update it by their own will to work, I even added a function allowing others than the spokesmen to feed the app, but in vain. It has been totally forgotten by the students. The app remains on the Play Store just to show it to people.