Hi all,
I'm new to android application development and i'm looking for some advise on how to achieve some of my intended functionality.
Essentially, it's an application for a College giving access to various functions at their finger tips such as upcoming events, nearby restaurants, course and staff information, news, class schedules etc.
The above seems pretty straight forward and i'll do the necessary research for it, what I would like your advise on is regarding the class schedule functionality.
Ideally what I would like is when the end-user selects 'Today's Class Schedule' they will be taken to a page displaying this information and should a particular class become cancelled all users would receive a push notification stating which class in particular was cancelled.
Now regarding the back-end of this, currently the college creates a class schedule everyday inside of an excel document, is there a way for me to simply take this excel document that's created daily and upload it on the backend of the application everyday which will automatically update on the end-user side and if a class is cancelled, I can modify a field to state class was cancelled and have that row highlighted red and have the push notification issued to all users?
Or is their an easier or better way to achieve this functionality. Ideally I would like to have it co-exist seamlessly with the existing system where an excel sheet is developed everyday. However, i am open to new ideas.
Also please note the excel sheet doesn't use any advanced functionality or anything but merely used because of its grid layout in displaying information. The IT infrastructure at the college is not high end so tasks may seem tedious, however I have to work with what I have.
Apologies for the really long post and thank you for reading and offering any advise you can.
I'm new to android application development and i'm looking for some advise on how to achieve some of my intended functionality.
Essentially, it's an application for a College giving access to various functions at their finger tips such as upcoming events, nearby restaurants, course and staff information, news, class schedules etc.
The above seems pretty straight forward and i'll do the necessary research for it, what I would like your advise on is regarding the class schedule functionality.
Ideally what I would like is when the end-user selects 'Today's Class Schedule' they will be taken to a page displaying this information and should a particular class become cancelled all users would receive a push notification stating which class in particular was cancelled.
Now regarding the back-end of this, currently the college creates a class schedule everyday inside of an excel document, is there a way for me to simply take this excel document that's created daily and upload it on the backend of the application everyday which will automatically update on the end-user side and if a class is cancelled, I can modify a field to state class was cancelled and have that row highlighted red and have the push notification issued to all users?
Or is their an easier or better way to achieve this functionality. Ideally I would like to have it co-exist seamlessly with the existing system where an excel sheet is developed everyday. However, i am open to new ideas.
Also please note the excel sheet doesn't use any advanced functionality or anything but merely used because of its grid layout in displaying information. The IT infrastructure at the college is not high end so tasks may seem tedious, however I have to work with what I have.
Apologies for the really long post and thank you for reading and offering any advise you can.