Appointsy

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Wireframes
4. Schema
5. App Updates

Overview

Description

An application for businesses that allows clients to schedule appointments through their availability.

App Evaluation

• Category: Business/Social Network.
• Mobile: Primarily developed for Android mobile applications but may extend the idea to the web and iOS.
• Story: Provides the user with nearby local businesses depending on the specified filters.
• Market: Small businesses and their clients.
• Habit: The app will be used as often as the user needs to schedule appointments for their daily lists and neccessities.
• Scope: Business would primarily post their availabilty on the app, which will allow users to specify their appointment. That will provide a bussiness with a confirmation of the appointment. Provide both the bussiness and individuals with a reminder.

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

User

• User can login & register
• User can favorite Businesses
• Login to view nearby businesses
• Filter nearby businesses by location/favorites
• Register through sign up
• Favorited/liked businesses
• Notifications and Reminders of Appointment
• Setup profile
• Google Maps API to show distance between User and Business

Business

• Sign up or log in
• Create business profile
• Set availability hours
• View all upcoming appointments

General

• UI Setup
• Custom App Icon
• Infinite scrolling
• Swipe to refresh
• Modal overlays (fragments)
• Bottom Navigation Bar
• Data binding MVVM
• Google API Maps
• Google API Calendar
• Back4App connect
• Connect Google Calendar API to allow users to add their appointment

Optional: Nice-to-have Stories

• Data Binding
• Stride API Payment system for SaaS
• Table Orders
• Splash Screen
• Business Analytics
• Offline persistence
• Phone number/email confirmation
• GitHub Actions setup
  • • CI - build
  • • CD - deploy

2. Screen Archetypes

• Login
• Register - Setup business or user credentials
  • Phone number confirmation
• Home
  • Shows list of scheduled appointments
• Stream
  • Show list of local businesses
  • User can filter by distance, favorited, and type of business
• Detail (Profile view)
  • Provide a detailed information from the profile
• Creation (Appointment)
  • View availability, create, reschedule, cancel appointments
  • Manange appointment(s) section
• Profile
  • Provide email, password, phone number
  • Setup photo, username, bio
  • Business: name, appointment availability, phone number, location, hours of operation
  • User: name, secheduled appointments (if it's with your business)
• Settings
  • Change theme light/dark mode
  • About
  • Logout

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)

• Stream (Businesses)
• Home (Manage appoinments)
• Creation
• Profile
• Settings

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Home
  • View created appointments
• Creation
  • Manage appointments
• Signup -> Profile setup
• Login -> Stream screen
• Stream -> detail view
• Stream -> compose
• Profile
  • Modify user attributes
• Settings
  • Show app settings

Wireframes

Wireframe Link: https://i.ibb.co/SRBY2FF/wireframes.jpg

• Recommend viewing the image in a different tab and zooming in
  to different parts of the image for a better understanding.

[BONUS] Digital Wireframes & Mockups

Digital Wireframe Link: https://www.figma.com/file/KJusfudVAfpp5y9wHIzaW7/Protoype?node-id=0%3A1

[BONUS] Interactive Prototype

Schema 1.3

Models

User

Property	Type	Description
ObjectID	Title	Unique profile ID
Name	String	User's full name
Email	String	User's unique email
Password	String	User's password
Image	File	Optional profile image
Phone Number	Integer	Optional/Required
Bio	String	Optional bio for user

Business

Property	Type	Description
ObjectID	Integer	Unique object ID
Business name	String	Business's name
Owner name	String	Owner's name
Location	Int	Business location
Hours	Int	Business hours of service
Service/Avg Price	Int	Average price of service
Business Type	String	Type of bussiness

Appointments

Property	Type	Description
ObjectID	Integer	Unique ID
Time	String	Appointment time
Details	String	Detail information
Date	Date	When the appointment is scheduled
isReschedule	Boolean	User can reschedule only 1 time
Status	Boolean	If the appointment is cancelled or awaiting
UserObjectID	Pointer	Reference key to User
BussinessObjectID	Pointer	Reference key to Business

Networking

• Login
  • Google Login
    • (READ/GET) google access token
• Register - Setup business or user credentials
  • (CREATE/POST) Create new user profile for client/business
• Stream
  • (READ/GET) Appointment details
• Home
  • Business
    • (READ/GET) get the list of events from user calendar
    • (UPDATE/PUT) Favorite
  • Client
    • (READ/GET) Get appointments from calendar
    • (Read/GET) Get distance of business in relation to users current location
• Detail
  • Business desc.
    • (READ/GET) Get Business details
    • (Create/POST) Create new Google Maps intent for driving directions
    • (READ/GET) Get appointments from calendar
  • Appointment
    • (DELETE) Cancel appointment
    • (UPDATE/PUT) Reschedule appointment
    • (POST/CREATE) Intent for Maps directions
• Creation (Appointment)
  • (READ/GET) Get business details
  • (CREATE/POST) Add event to calendar
• Appointment Overlay
  • (Create/POST) Create a new appointments
  • (READ/GET) Get events from calendar
  • (READ/GET) Get business details
• Profile
  • (GET/CREATE) Create a new user Profile
• Settings
  • (POST/GET) User preference for dark mode
  • (POST/GET) Logout

--- Basic snippets for each Parse network request

public void createObject() {
  ParseObject entity = new ParseObject("Appointment");

  entity.put("BusinessName", "A string");
  entity.put("Time", "2323" );
  entity.put("Status", "Confirmed" );
  entity.put("Details", "Business 123" );
  entity.put("isReschedule", "false" );

  entity.put("user", ParseUser.getCurrentUser());

  // Saves the new object.
  // Notice that the SaveCallback is totally optional!
  entity.saveInBackground(e -> {
    if (e==null){
      //Save was done
    }else{
      //Something went wrong
      Toast.makeText(this, e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
  });
}

— End points & APIs

Google Maps API

• Base URL - http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api
• Documentation - https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/overview#json

HTTP VERB	Endpoint	Description
GET	distancematrix/rows/distance	gets distance between two locations

Google Calendar API

• Base URL - https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3
• Documentation - https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference

HTTP VERB	Endpoint	Description
GET	/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId	Returns an event.

Stripe API

• Base URL - https://api.stripe.com
• Documentation - https://stripe.com/docs/development/quickstart

HTTP VERB	Endpoint	Description
POST	/create-payment-intent	Payment lifecycle

Google Pay

• Documentation: https://developers.google.com/pay/api/android/overview
• Setup: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup

Google Login

• documentation: https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/start
• Reference: https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/auth/api/signin/GoogleSignInApi

Open-Source Libraries & Resources

• iconmonstr

App Updates

Create Appointent

Features