In this fourth blog post, I’ll talk about some of the things our team has tried to accomplish, and what myself and the team as a whole will be working towards for this week.
The main focus for our team last week, and for the beginning of this week is to familiarize ourselves with the Firebase console, and to try testing out some sample backend things using the Firestore, which we are using as our backend database for our mobile app.
Our team decided that Firebase would be the best database to use for our mobile app, and since we have all never used it before, we will be spending some time learning how to interact with a Firebase backend.
In our most recent team meeting, we discussed how we are going to setup our database structure, and what we would name our attributes. We are still trying to flesh out the structure, but we were able to jot down most of the attributes we’ll need to put our mobile app together and store customer information correctly.
Since Flutter/Dart is still fairly new to our team, we will be spending the remainder of the week learning about how to integrate Firebase into our app. Besides that, we each have our own small tasks that we can complete before our next team meeting. For myself, I am in charge of creating the user interfaces for the Home Page screens. Since this doesn’t require pulling any data from the backend, I can go ahead and setup the UI and push it to our Github repo for the project.
