Hello community! I am here to ask some advice and would really appreciate it.
I've had this great idea for an app for my college, the main purpose is a delivery service since many students sell many types of stuff inside the campus (such as food, school supplies, used books, accesories, and much more).
This is a brief description of what i'd like to incorporate:
First as obvious will be a registration/login for clients and sellers.
The seller accounts can upload their products, add details, photos, price, optional quantity, and an option to pause the sales in case they are out of stock. whenever someone adds their product to the cart and commits to buy their item they inmediatly receive a notification if they are conected to the internet, otherwise the client receives a messege informing the seller is unavailable, so they can search the product from another seller.
The clients will search for their item of interest, see all the info needed and add to cart, when they commit to buy they can choose whether to contact the seller and agree an encounter, or privide their actual classroom so the seller can deliver. and after the seller and client both confirm the delivery and payment, they rate eachother.
The design may feature a main menu where you can look up products and filter them by frequently bought, newest, or so, and also a search by category or search by name. and a sidebar where you can change through main menu, messages, profile, and settings.
Two types of accounts, so some options are hidden to others, notifications are a key factor, conection to a server and database so everyone has displayed the same information. im aware that many thing have to be involved for it to work properly.
I would also put ads so i can get some income, and if it all goes well, i'd integrate a fee for the sellers i dont know yet maybe a montly or once upon registration i dont know but i think of making it an in-app purchase, sellers that joined before that update will indeed have some kind of discount or benefit. Or if they dont want to or cant pay within the app, they can pay me personaly and i can activate the membership for them.
There would be no money transactions in the app, only the in-app purchase for the sellers membership.
That is the basic concept of the app. I think you get most of the idea. I have very little experience with java and android as i had programming classes at high school, but very basic stuff.
Soooo now that you know what im going to deal with, i would really appreciate if you could tell me aproximately how difficult it may be or how long may it take me. I know it need lots of coding and i already started watching some videos but now i dont really know if i'll make up enough time to start from scratch and finish completely the app.
Oh and also, sorry i know this is an android forum, but is there be a way to program it in a languaje that both android and ios support? could it work perfectly on both platforms or would one still need more adjustments and a lot more time to make both work synced? i dont know about that topic.
Sorry if i made this a bit long but now i am very confused and want to know if it will be worth it since i also have my own work to do at collage.
And thanks so much in advance!! Have a good day!
I've had this great idea for an app for my college, the main purpose is a delivery service since many students sell many types of stuff inside the campus (such as food, school supplies, used books, accesories, and much more).
This is a brief description of what i'd like to incorporate:
First as obvious will be a registration/login for clients and sellers.
The seller accounts can upload their products, add details, photos, price, optional quantity, and an option to pause the sales in case they are out of stock. whenever someone adds their product to the cart and commits to buy their item they inmediatly receive a notification if they are conected to the internet, otherwise the client receives a messege informing the seller is unavailable, so they can search the product from another seller.
The clients will search for their item of interest, see all the info needed and add to cart, when they commit to buy they can choose whether to contact the seller and agree an encounter, or privide their actual classroom so the seller can deliver. and after the seller and client both confirm the delivery and payment, they rate eachother.
The design may feature a main menu where you can look up products and filter them by frequently bought, newest, or so, and also a search by category or search by name. and a sidebar where you can change through main menu, messages, profile, and settings.
Two types of accounts, so some options are hidden to others, notifications are a key factor, conection to a server and database so everyone has displayed the same information. im aware that many thing have to be involved for it to work properly.
I would also put ads so i can get some income, and if it all goes well, i'd integrate a fee for the sellers i dont know yet maybe a montly or once upon registration i dont know but i think of making it an in-app purchase, sellers that joined before that update will indeed have some kind of discount or benefit. Or if they dont want to or cant pay within the app, they can pay me personaly and i can activate the membership for them.
There would be no money transactions in the app, only the in-app purchase for the sellers membership.
That is the basic concept of the app. I think you get most of the idea. I have very little experience with java and android as i had programming classes at high school, but very basic stuff.
Soooo now that you know what im going to deal with, i would really appreciate if you could tell me aproximately how difficult it may be or how long may it take me. I know it need lots of coding and i already started watching some videos but now i dont really know if i'll make up enough time to start from scratch and finish completely the app.
Oh and also, sorry i know this is an android forum, but is there be a way to program it in a languaje that both android and ios support? could it work perfectly on both platforms or would one still need more adjustments and a lot more time to make both work synced? i dont know about that topic.
Sorry if i made this a bit long but now i am very confused and want to know if it will be worth it since i also have my own work to do at collage.
And thanks so much in advance!! Have a good day!
