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Description

This is a small solo project for Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences autumn 2024 Mobile Programming course.

Meant to help a small group to arrange time for watching movies/series together and to decide what to watch.

Features

• User profiles
• Search for movies/series
• Choosing dates from calendar
• Voting for watchtimes and movies/series

Used Technologies

Developed using:

• Expo Go
• React Native
• React Native Paper

External sources used:

• omdbapi.com for Movies/Series API
  • https://www.omdbapi.com/
• Google Firebase for Realtime Database
  • https://firebase.google.com/

Other node packaged used:

• react-native-community/datetimepicker
  • https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/date-time-picker/

.env file

Project uses .env file for the connections to omdbapi.com and Firebase. Both the API key from ombdapi.com and a Realtime Database in Firebase needed for the app to work.

Example .env file content:

EXPO_PUBLIC_OMDB_API_KEY=abcd1234
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY=AIzjSyA8Bh7rwerN4OGbVLedJ54hjWj6FHP3fqpegwQ
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=shoppingapp-91ahe.firebaseapp.com
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_DATABASE_URL=https://shoppingapp-91-rtdb.us-west1.firebasedatabase.app
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=shoppingapp-91ede
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=shoppingapp-91ede.appspot.com
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=1056464134052
EXPO_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_APP_ID=1:10864638354052:web:e959565f804cacd0ed691

Usage

The project isn't published or compiled as of november 2024.

To start the expo server:

npx expo start

On your mobile phone you need a Expo Go app which can be found in app stores.