UW Chat

This is meant to be a simple realtime cross-platform chat-room application built using cordova.

Purpose:

This app is meant to be a demoable product for my Knowledge Integration 121 W14 class, towards addressing the issue of student stress.
The app attempts to do this by allowing freshmen to communicate easily and seamlessly with other frosh on this app, without knowing friends initially, and with leaders for assistance.
This is not a production quality app, and as such is expected to have bugs and be left incomplete. You should not be using this. If you want to work on it/use it/have questions/want me to finish it, feel free to contact me or do so.

Tooling

CoffeeScript
Jade
Stylus
Gulp
Angular and ngTouch
Firebases firechat libraries
Cordova
Android

DEV

Based off of firechat. Source code is in coffescript, jade and stylus, inside the www/src directory.

You can install the apk via numerous methods.
Example with the android debug bridge:

adb connect <device-ip>   
adb install <pkg-name>

Cordova commands can be used to add platforms, build, emulate etc.

Install gulp dependencias via

sudo npm install

To transpile the source files:

gulp

To run server(this server does not watch for file changes, todo: setup gulp task to restart the cordova server)

cordova serve

To roll your own apk.

cordova create <app-name>
cd <app-name>

Copy the www/ files into the new www/ directory.
Remember to remove node_modules/ from www/ if you were working on it before, otherwise build will fail. Android example

cordova platform add android
cordova build android --release

This'll create an unsigned apk in /platforms/android/ant-build Sign it as per http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html

keytool -genkey -keystore <keyname>.keystore -alias <alias-name>
jarsigner -keystore <name.keystore> <apk name> <keystore alias>

TODO:

Get firechat working. -done
Stylings. -done
Login page or some sort of user auth. -done
Add android platform, generate apk, load, demo --> Deadline April 1st -done, met
Custom loading page.
User authentication (does UW have an API for that?)
User permissions, i.e. allow moderators.
Different chatrooms i.e. Arts/Eng/Env etc -done
Get sockets working on mobile so the app can actually send messages.