This week we continue refining the prototype and added a couple of new settings pages:
The sources we use in our app and a word about the publisher.
User reading statistics: A breakdown of the most frequent sources the user read from.
Other settings pages such as notification and alerts.
On the coding side of the project, we came up with the advanced architecture for our app.
Among the discussed topics were:
Should we use cloud-based services so our server side will “live” separately from the client side? The answer was yes.
In what way should the client and server side communicate between them.
Should the client pull data from the server or rather the server pushes it to the client.
Furthermore, we continued to develop both client and server side. The server can now read the RSS pages of the selected new sites and form a single file to send to the client.
On the client side, we added additional functionality compared to the previous MVP we developed - by clicking on the name of the article, a popup appears with a summary of the article. In addition, we have added a link from the abstract to the site where the full article appears.
We started by connecting the client side to the server side to allow reading of a dedicated JSON file and thereby cause the feed to be updated in the app.
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