Study Buddies

Study Buddies is a mobile application developed in the CECS 491 Senior Project Series aided to help students develop positive study habits and collaboration techniques. The application uses the React Native and Expo Client libraries to run natively on both Android and iOS devices.

Dependencies

• Node.js as the foundation for expo-client. LTS version is preferred and can be found here
• Expo CLI for running the command-line interface found here
• Visual Studio Code a lightweight Integrated Development Environment to edit all necessary files
• Expo Go for development testing found here for iOS and here for Android

Installation

1. Follow the instructions to install the necessary dependencies from their respective websites
2. Open a command-line/terminal window, and type
   sudo npm install --global expo-cli
   sudo ensures any directory installation issues that are not in your home directory
3. Run npm install to install any missing project dependencies in the current project directory

Run

1. Run npm start to start the Expo Client
2. Scan the QR code to open the respective mobile application on your device
3. Enjoy our application

Demo

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