Engineering Notebook Jacob

2/9/21:

• Got Flutter and Dart set up. More work still needs to be done to set up Android Studio; a couple of errors need to be figured out.

2/10/21:

• Did work on the new SRS. Added requirements to sections 3.4 to 3.9.

2/11/21:

• Finalized contributions to the SRS. Filled out section 3.4 with more requirements pertaining to the help tab.
• Got Android Studio fully set up, bugs worked out. App has been launched.

2/16/21:

• Did research about how Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook store their location data. Came to the conclusion that we don't have direct access to location data of friends, just of the user, and that our original idea won't work.

2/18/21:

• Did work on the new SDS. Contributed to sections 2, 5, and 6, which was mostly just proofreading of the old sections as mostly everything stayed the same design-wise. Also helped with formatting the figures.

2/23/21:

• Location data research is done now. New idea is to use the user's recently visited locations to identify areas of potential exposure based on public COVID case data.
• Will need to find a reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date dataset for this purpose.

2/25/21:

• Sprint 1 demo is today; contributed my portion to the demo slides pertaining to the location data research.

3/4/21:

• Looked over the SRS V2 to check for errors. Not much needed to be added from V1, so this didn't take long.

3/9/21:

• Created a placeholder page for location. For now it just displays some text, but I just wanted to make sure I was able to create a new page and have it show in the app.

3/11/21:

• Researched possible sources for location data from Facebook data. Most of the data is likely going to come from the security_and_login_information folder, as the data contained there is much more comprehensive than that from posts, and also accounts for potential users who don't post as much, but still regularly use the app.

3/23/21:

• Continued work on the location page. I need to figure out how uploading data is done elsewhere in the app before I can make much progress here.

3/24/21:

• Met with Bryce to go over how the uploading and parsing of data is done. With this, I was able to make further progress on the location page, as it will use a similar approach.

3/25/21:

• Added finishing touches to the uploading portion of the location page. I wasn't able to get as much done as I had hoped, but the page now accepts file upload, similar to how it's done for the Upload Data page, for the purposes of gathering location data, and saves it to a file. Goals for sprint 3 will be to expand the page to work with Instagram, show the uploaded data, and display COVID case data relating to those locations.
• Added my portion to the sprint 2 demo slides.

4/6/21:

• Added functionality for Instagram location data upload. There are still some bugs to work out, but the button and methods are all there.

4/14/21:

• Met with Teja to work out details regarding COVID case data (where to source the data from, how to access it, etc.), made good progress. We found a library that should work and a comprehensive dataset to pull from.