Stud.UCLouvain

Stud.UCLouvain is an application designed to accompany UCLouvain students in their daily life on campus.

Contributions are welcome for any good feature.

[WIP] Possible major update (+ migration to Ionic_v4) : https://github.com/BenJneB/StudUCLouvain_ionic-v4

Feel free to collaborate.

Anyone wishing to participate and/or propose new features should not hesitate to contact [email protected] or directly make a pull-request on the repo concerned.

Prerequisites

• Download nodejs from https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ It will install node and npm

node -v
 - should be >= 12.0.0
npm -v
 - should be >= 6.0.0

• For iOS, update XCode version to 8.0 or higher

• Get Google Maps API keys :

  • Go to Google Console : https://console.developers.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=maps\_backend,geocoding\_backend,directions\_backend,distance\_matrix\_backend,elevation\_backend,places\_backend&reusekey=true
  • Select or create a project
  • Click on continue to activate the API
  • Once you are on page Credentials, select the Javascript API. Click on the blue button to create the key.
  • Click on the library button on the left pane
  • Select Google Maps Android and then enable the service, repeat this step for Google Maps iOS
  • Click on credentials on the left pane, create two more api keys (one for Android, one for iOS
  • Click on each new key to restrict it's access (Android restriction, iOS restriction, HTTP referent restriction)

Getting Started

• Clone this repository

• Install Ionic, cordova

  $ npm install -g ionic cordova@^9

• or update Ionic

  $ npm uninstall -g ionic cordova
  $ npm install -g ionic cordova@^9

• Install node_modules

  $ npm install

• Replace the values of "myapikeyforandroid" and "myapikeyforios" by the keys you created in the Google Console, in the file StudUCLouvain/config.xml

  <preference name="GOOGLE_MAPS_ANDROID_API_KEY" value="myapikeyforandroid"/>
  <plugin name="cordova-plugin-googlemaps">
    <variable name="API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID" value="myapikeyforandroid" />
    <variable name="API_KEY_FOR_IOS" value="myapikeyforios" />
  </plugin>

• Replace the value of "myapikey" by your Javascript key in the file StudUCLouvain/src/app/variables-config.ts

Build

$ ionic cordova build <platform>
$ ionic cordova build <platform> --prod
$ ionic cordova build <platform> --prod --release

Run

Browser

$ ionic serve

Android/Other

• Prepare the cordova build (If this does not work, skip this step and try again after the next step. If this does not work again, ignore and test without):

  $ cordova prepare

$ ionic cordova platform add <android/iOS>
$ ionic cordova run <android/iOS>

For iOS, a Mac device is mandatory.

Tests

Unit Tests : Karma

To run the unit tests

$ npm test

E2E Tests : Protractor

To run the E2E tests

$ ionic serve
$ npm run e2e

Features

Existing Features

• Display course schedule (ADE) and select your session
• Add course schedule to your calendar
• Display annual course program
• Display Libraries schedule and more informations
• Display News of UCL
• Display Events of CarpeStudentem
• Display Sports schedule
• Launch carpooling app https://www.commuty.net
• Launch train app https://www.belgiantrain.be/fr/travel-info/prepare-for-your-journey/use-the-sncb-app
• Launch bus app https://nextride.be/timetables
• Launch Resto4u app
• Help Desk, How to connect to the university network
• Maps with point of interest on campus
• Staffbook
• Campaign Guindaille2.0

Future Features

• Display exam score

User Guide

Contribution

Contributions are welcome!

• Report issues
• Open pull request with improvements
• Spread the word

Developper Guide

Contact

• In case of problems, please contact us : [email protected]

License

Stud.UCLouvain is available under the GNU/GPLv3 license. See the LICENSE file for more info.