We used our Miro board primarily for planning our weekly meetings ahead of time and as sort of a blank space for brainstorming and working on our project management assignments. The wide variety of tools and plugins was of great benefit to us.
Trello
Trello was used to keep track of our Backlog and document the progression of all our tasks. The kanban style layout and handy functions like requirements and deadlines made it the perfect choice for the job.
Discord
During our time developing Strollr, Discord was the main hub for all our conversations, quick questions, short meetups as well as a medium for exchanging pictures and sharing links or useful information.
communication tech stack
Tech Stack Dev
Flutter™️
During the early planning stages, we decided that our application should be able to run on both Android and iOS. As a result of that, we narrowed down our framework options to React Native and Flutter.
Having little to no experience with app development at that time and relying mainly on our own research and experiences from previous IMI projects, we decided that Flutter should be the framework of our choice.
Flutter is provided by Google and based on Dart, a programming language similar to JavaScript. Its biggest advantage is the ability to deploy projects on both Android and iOS with very little adjustments. Additionally, it is well documented and beginner-friendly.
Android Studio, IntelliJ or Visual Code?
Instead of specifying one, we used a variety of different IDEs, all of them offering integration for the Flutter SDK. This way, everyone could choose according to their own preferences and feel comfortable while coding, which was important to us.
Google Maps API
For the tracking capabilities of our App, we are using the Google Maps API for Flutter. It is provided via the Google Cloud Services and free to use within a certain request limit. But for our use case, that was plenty enough!
GitHub
The version control system of our choice is Git with GitHub as the hosting platform. Easy to use, hard to master, but definitely a
good training exercise for later jobs. We struggled with occasional merge errors and some other branching issues, but managed to overcome them by means of research and team spirit.
SQLite
Since our app runs locally we chose SQLite as relational database to persist and query the data. SQLite is an open source database that
does not require a server and provides faster inserts, updates, and queries compared to other local persistence solutions (like local file or key-value store).
With the help of the sqflite plugin, flutter can easily make use of the database.
