Pekkas - An Android Event Management Application

In my third year of university, I attempted the introduction class to software development (Cmput 301). An essential cornerstone for every future developer, covering object-oriented programming, Agile workflows, and team-based communication/organization. The major project for Cmput 301 was a fully fledged Android application developed by a team of 6. This class was also many student's first introduction to a major software group project.

The Cmput 301 experience transcends beyond a software dev course into something sacred, a rite of passage for those seeking the end of the C.S. degree cycle. Hence, I like to describe everyone's first time in a software team as a trial by fire, see my aptly titled blog on group project and how my team barely managed to not collapse on itself.

Pekkas is the name of our final application. It includes everything expected for an online social system, such as:

• User profiles with important information and profile pictures, stored in Firestore and Firebase Storage.

• Ability to waitlist for events by scanning a QR code. Users who are accepted will receive a confirmation notification to complete registration; otherwise, the app will reselect a new user.
• The ability for anyone to register a facility and become an organizer. Organizers can create and edit events, view the name + profile picture of users registered in their events, and randomly select X users if the waitlist is over capacity.
• Events store information such as scheduling, geolocation (via Google Map API), banner images, descriptions of the event, and an automatically generated QR code for joining.

• Organizers can send notifications to users about their events. Ability to filter recipients with certain conditions.

• An admin interface to moderate and delete content from the app. Includes search functionality and image browsing.

Pekkas isn't published on any app store, and I doubt an event hosting service with no active users would be practical. At least the project is still archived on GitHub with 700+ commits in 3 months.