food-for-folks / iOS

iOS branch of our main app. Alpha testing

Food For Folks

Connecting people and organizations with food to donate to people and places that need food. This is a completely intergrated solution that can store food items and enable it users to communicate in app easly without the need to rely on 3rd party apps.

Getting Started

Clone the repository and connect to a Firebase instance by adding your own GoogleService-Info.plist to projectBase/Supporting Files. After that from the terminal in the root folder of the repository run

$ pod install

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software

Firebase Account
Mac Computer
Xcode 10 & Swift 4.2 or higher
iOS device if not simulating
Apple Developer Account & membership for iOS device provsioning 

Deployment

This app is in alpha testing stage. It should not be deployed in a production envroment.

Built With

• Cocoapods - A dependency manager for Swift
• Xcode - IDE
• Swift - iOS programming language
• Firebase - A comprehensive mobile development platform used for the backend

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Cory Rooker - Lead Programmer iOS - AlternateCory
• Thomas Obarowski - Initial work - tjobarow
• Yuliya Pinchuk - Initial work - ypinchuk
• Weston Harmon - Initial work - wharmon3
• Zeenat Sabakada - Initial work - zsabakada

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• We have used a lot of code from the MessageKit team. They made this app way eaiser to create. Love them!
• This project has it roots in a senior design project from UNC Charlotte during the spring 2019 school semester.
• It would not be possible without Professor Mohamed Shehab and his ITCS 4180 class or Professor Bojan Cukic in ITCS 4155. Thank you both for the great classs.
• We would also like to thank the dean of UNCC CCI department Fatma Mili and others for the support. If they had not showed such intrest in the project we would not have continued it.