About this app

Miami Auto is a prototype app that is fed from a JSON source package from an updating database on a server, the app has an accompanying website for admin and a Paypal system.

This app was built with the senior citizen in mind, a citizen that may have been through two wars, had four wives and in their later years have no time or inclination to learn Android Studio or face large and on going fees for app maintenance and upkeep but find their small business concerns are suffering without a presence in apps.

Technical Specifications

• Restful Services
• data and images from server
• Feed Driven
• Googles Open Source Library Gson for parsing feed
• Lazy Loading Design Pattern for Images
• Caches images in persistent storage
• Loads images from persistent cache after first store
• Maintains Persistent Settings
• Recycler View
• Async Task

This app has an accompanying website built in Php / MySQL and Javascript which provides a simple interface with admin section which allows the user CRUD functionality to update what they have for sale, altering prices or removing if they have become sold.

In this case cars are used as the example and the senior citizen who simply wishes to sell the cars they bring back to life in their lockup garage or small business holdings as they journey into the latter years of their life can do so free from large maintenance costs or any other hassle large investment in the technology sector can bring.

In tandem with the app and website the third arm of the system is a fully functioning Paypal system built in which allows users to purchase goods online at the business Miami Auto.

PLEASE NOTE : This Paypal system has been deactivated and is included for demonstration purposes only - though it can be re-activated for any user who required it it is instead used for demonstration purposes.

HOWEVER : Completion of any attempt to purchase goods takes a user to the online portfolio website www.Behance.com where a project using this same Paypal system is demonstrated by user journey showing - Purchasing - Tracking - and Error Detection between goods price leaving and returned Paypal receipt price which gives the owner of this system immediate warning if there are discrepancies between the price leaving and returned Paypal receipt price allowing immediate investigation.

This is done to detect any potential breach of the system through IPN instant payment notification facility.
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New features

Miami Auto is a JSON fed Gson parsed app utilizing cache for image storage, with links to it's own website with admin and Paypal support functionality.

This app has now been re-built converting it to the Kotlin programming language.

This applications Android SDK has been upgraded to use platform 30.

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.