The idea of project is to make a mobile application for pre-owned goods trading among Georgia Tech students. This idea came from our experience using Facebook GT thrift shop group page. We believe that a mobile application, with improvement and newly added features such as rating and comments system, instant message and direct photos uploads, will make it more convenient for GT students and faculties to sell or buy used goods. Additionally, integrating GT authentication into the app will make our app a much safer choice for GT students.

• Jihai An [@alexan0218]
• Mengyang Shi @CinaShi
• Wenzhong Jin [@WenzhongJin]
• Yang Yang [@yysama233]
• Yichen Li [@yli923]

Link to our detailed design doc

1. New Features

• Users can now search the product they want by keywords and categories.
• Users can now use in-app messages to chat with other users.
• Buyers can now rate and comment on the seller after purchasing products from the seller.
• Users can now view a product's pictures in full-screen size.
• The side bar on product page can now be expanded by swiping.

2. Bugs fixed

• Fixed a bug that makes the app crush after users cancel searching.
• Fixed a bug that makes the swipe gesture fails.
• User's rating is functioning properly now.
• Fixed minor UI bugs. The app now looks awesome on different screen sizes.

3. Existing problems & future functionalities.

• This app can only run properly on iOS devices of which system language is English(U.S.).
• User will be able to update their profile and products in the future.
• User will be able to use swipe gesture to browse images in full-screen mode.
• User will be able to use third party payment methods(Venmo, Paypal, etc) to complete their transaction.
• User will be able to receive notifications when they receive in-app messages.

• For developers:

This project requires Mac OS system, Xcode 8 and Swift 3 to run. Normally if you are using a Mac system already, simply downlaod the latest version of Xcode from App Store and open GTThriftShop.xcworkspace in frontend folder.

• For future customers:

After this app launches in App Store in the future, customers will be able to download it directly from App Store on iPhone. This app currently requires iPhone version of at least 10.0 and iPhone model no earlier than iPhone 6.

Normally to run this project there's no need to download any other dependent libraries since all dependent ones have been included. But if when running the app Xcode shoots troubles of any third-party libraries missing, try re-install CocoaPods by running following line in frontend folder from Terminal:

$ pod install

Pre-requisites include an installation of python-2.7.13 and a list of pip packages below. Once pre-requisites are met, backend is able to run with a line of code python app.py on local host.

• Flask

$ pip install flask

• boto3

$ pip install boto3

To run this project in Xcode, you can either use Xcode's built-in iPhone simulator or, if you have an Apple developer account already, connect your device to your Mac and test running the app on your device. If you are unfamiliar with how to use Xcode, here's an awesome user guide from codewithchris.com.