Big Red Talks

Created in January 2022

Members

• Connor Chen - iOS Developer
• Harrison Chin - iOS Developer
• Matthew Chan - Backend Developer
• Patrick Chen - Backend Developer
• Melissa Chen - UI/UX Developer

Description

Big Red Talks is an iOS mobile application that connects Cornell students together in an engaging campus-wide group chat. Cornell students are verified based on their location and cornell.edu email. The frontend was created in Swift using SwiftUI and Firebase. The backend was created in Javascript using Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose, and MongoDB Atlas.

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How to Run

Requirements: XCode version 13 (or higher)

1. Clone this repository
2. Navigate into the iOS/ directory in a terminal
3. Run the command pod install
   • If you do not have CocoaPods installed first run gem install cocoapods
   • If you are getting an error you may have to update CocoaPods by running gem update cocoapods
4. Open the iOS/ directory in XCode
5. Click the build button and the app should open
   • Optionally, you can connect an iPhone to your computer before building to get a copy of the app on a physical device
6. Enjoy!