This is an android app that enables a user to search books, add books to the cart, borrow and return books from 3 book shops.
The books in the bookshop are being managed by another app (website).
A User donwloads the app, creates an accout, searches a for a book,
selects a book to view details, then decide to add a book or several books to a cart.
The user can then view his cart and decide to
- checkout (borrow) a book from the cart (The number of available books is the automatically updated ),
- if the book is not available to checkout, the user can reserve it and and be added to the wait queue for checkout a soon as a copy is available.
- delete a book from the cart.
The user can view his borrowed books and
- return a borrowed book.
The user can then view his history (returned books).
The app is written in Android native using java.
The backend is written in
- js
- node
- express
- mongodb
Currently the app can only run using a test server (localhost).
- Clone/download the node server
- Navigate with the shell/cmd to the root of the server
- run the following npm commands one after the other
$ npm install
$ npm start
- The server is running.
- now obtain the ip address of the server by running
$ ipfonfig #shell
$ ifconfig #cmd
- Use this ip address in your app, make sure the server and the phones are in the same homegroup (network).
Search a book
Book detail view
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