News & Events

The News/Events feature provides Ulm University specific news and events (e.g. talks). The data is sourced from the UUlm web page (News / Events) or, more accurately, from its RSS feed.

Implementation

If you are interested in the implementation, lets dive into it with following quicklinks:

• <Android>

• <Backend>

• iOS Implementation

Functional Requirements

NE-1 News

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency
Description	A news shall consist of a timestamp, an adequate picture, a headline and a description.

NE-2 Events

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency
Description	An event shall consist of a timestamp, a location, a headline, a description and an organizer.

NE-3 Listing of news and events

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency	NE-1, NE-2
Description	Users can switch between the news and events view via tab bar and the system shall provide a list of the 10 latest (most recent) news and events. If the end of the list is reached while scrolling, 5 more events are loaded and added to the end of the list. By default the latest events and news should be displayed.

NE-4 Details

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency	NE-1, NE-2
Description	By clicking or touching an event or news, detailed information should be displayed by the system.

NE-5 Calendar

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency	NE-2
Description	The system shall provide a functionality to add events to the users calender.

NE-6 Liking

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency	NE-1, NE-2
Description	The system shall allow the user to like news and events.

NE-7 Sharing

Priority	high
Status	determined
Involved stakeholders	Development Team
Implemented in	backend 1.0.0 , android 1.0.0, ios 1.0.0
Dependency	NE-1, NE-2
Description	The system shall allow the user to share news and events.