IntegraMe is an accessible schedule for students in special education centers, developed for children with different capabilities and capacities.
As such, the application is able to adapt its UI/UX to the user's needs, including special input devices like external buttons or specialized keyboards.
In the subject project leading & management, we had been taught about accessibility and software project development, which we put to use developing this application as the main subject's task.
This project has allowed us to learn and gain experience in the following fields:
- Teamwork.
- Software architecture (MVVM, Client-Server...).
- Programming (Kotlin, Javascript, NodeJS).
- Documentation (API Docs, Kotlin Docs).
- Agile methodologies: Scrum (rotating roles).
- Tools: Jira, Excel (work schedule and hours), Project Libre (Gantt Charts).
Internal documents such as class diagrams, user stories or Gantt Charts wont be shared here for privacy and ownership reasons.
This application was developed for Android.
Technology wise, it uses Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, as we believe that these are the best tools that nowadays exist for Android development.
The main libraries we use are:
- Retrofit2 (API)
- Dagger Hilt (dependency injection)
- Room (local database)
- Coil (remote images)
Since the backend cloud server is down, the application cant be run once compiled, as it will crash when retrieving data from the API. However, one can change the build configuration to build using the testing API interface, which will handle requests locally.
The application's backend was made using NodeJS as the server, where we defined a REST Json based API that communicates the database and the frontend, which in this case is our Android app.
Furthermore, it also offers support for the administration tools, deployed in a webpage.