"Give and Take for Android mobile"

StuffBee ReadMe 1.0 14/04/08

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"Give and Take for Android mobile”

What is StuffBee? StuffBee main goal is to promote “give and take” for Android Mobiles.

StuffBee gives the opportunity to anybody having redundant objects to

avoid trashing them by meeting other persons in need of those objects within the same geographic area, thanks to their Android mobile phone.

Benefits are multiple: increasing interaction between unknown persons,

save money, avoid recycling and promote Android Operating System …

Why “Give and take” on Mobiles is a perfect match? - Mobiles are very handy to publish rich multimedia content thanks to

their embedded camera functionalities.

- Mobiles does not require cables, all the publishing is made instantly thanks to “network always on” feature avoiding manual human

synchronisation phase. - Mobiles are portative, they can move with you to the most unusual

place where your computer cannot go and deliver “instant live data”. - Mobiles are fun! StuffBee is fun!

- 3 Billion Mobile users can participate in building the biggest active “give and take” community.

For a more general description, please visit http://www.stuffbee.com



Installation process

Installation is straight forward and does not require specific guidance. Push “StuffBee.apk” on the emulator and get running.

Note: When using StuffBee for the first time, it may take a few seconds to

create the database creation and perform auto registration.

This version of StuffBee has been developed, tested and optimized for version M5-rc15 of the SDK for the skin H-VGA.

Test process

Test process is more complicated! You will need at least 2 mobiles to test/complete a stuff publication, reservation, validation, contact

information exchange lifecycle.

You can either choose to run “at least” 2 emulators on the same computer

(request a powerful machine) or launch StuffBee on different machines.

Note: If you choose to run two emulators on the same PC, please make sure that emulator image disks are separated or it will spoils the fun of

using StuffBee soap server!

Murphy’s law

Nobody is perfect and we are no exception. If for obscure reasons you are

not be able to launch StuffBee, do not understand the documentation or just simply have a question or a user feedback, feel free to contact us!

- Finally, we wish you the best fun for your test! -



StuffBee Graphic User Interface reference

Registration process

No formal registration is required. You will need to agree to the terms. After automatic registration of your mobile number & SIM, you will be

navigated to the main page of the application. “Hit the screen” to begin giving or seeking stuff!

The Home Page

“Hit a key or the screen” to access to the menu of the application.

StuffBee home page - Main menu

StuffBee menu contains the following options: Give Stuff Wizard, My Stuff

explorer, Free Stuff explorer, StuffBee Parameters, Partners and Help.



The Give Stuff Wizard

An activity wizard tailored to provide stuff givers with the best giving tool ever made. Once you launch this wizard, you will first take a picture of the

stuff you are giving away and in a second step fill properties of the stuff like “name”, “category”, “status”, ”pickup deadline”, “pickup type” and

“full description”.

Add Stuff Wizard

Camera mode

Add Stuff Wizard

Stuff definition mode

The “Stuff me” button will take care of publishing your stuff to seekers in your geographic area.

The “Add more” button will publish your stuff and launch the publish wizard again; all properties will be defaulted to the previous object to

allow faster and easier stuff publishing except for stuff name and full description.

The “Exit” button will cancel the publishing and bring you back to StuffBee Home page.



The Stuff explorer: “My Stuff” and “Free Stuff”

Using one of those options will launch the stuff explorer that will give you access to “Your stuff” or “Free stuff available in your geographical area”.

The stuff explorer allows givers to browse/give/delete/edit object

properties, answer pending questions and (un)validate reservation.

The stuff explorer allows seekers to browse/(un)reserve/view objects properties and ask questions.

Once the reservation is validated by the giver, the stuff explorer provides

direct access to contact entries related to the object.

Stuff Explorer

My Stuff mode

Stuff Explorer

Free Stuff mode



The title of the window summarizes the number of elements that are

currently available. If too many stuff are loaded, you can tailored the display by using the smart category filter to focus on a specific set of

items.

StuffBee Explorer – Smart Filter

To access properties of a stuff, “Click on it!”. A popup menu will appear with possible actions on the stuff you have selected depending on multiple

criteria ranking from stuff ownership to its system status.



Stuff Explorer

Available actions for givers

Stuff Explorer

Available actions for seekers

Possible actions are “View”, “Edit”, “Delete”, “Reserve”, “Cancel reservation”, “Validate reservation”, “See contact”, “Ask a question”,

“Answer a question” as detailed in the Stuff Action legend.

StuffBee Explorer – Legend of stuff actions



StuffBee: The contact information exchange process

The contact exchange process is breakable into 4 steps: 1- Publication of an object by the giver using the stuff publication

wizard, 2- Download and reservation of an object by a seeker,

3- Validation of the seeker reservation, 4- Automatic notification of validation with contact information

exchange.

After the reservation is validated by the giver, both the seeker and the giver are notified with the contact information of other parties and a new

entry is created within their contact list that can be accessed with the “See contact” option of their “Stuff Explorer”.

Contact list

Seeker contact information

Contact list

Giver contact information



The data navigator component at the bottom of the screen helps you navigate more efficiently through available stuff:

- The “View” button gives you access to 5 display types to inspect loaded stuff list with different detail levels: picture grid, text grid (or

tag cloud), picture and text, picture only, text only. - Browsing arrows allow you to move from one page to another. More

than 16 stuff needs to be entered in the system to activate arrows.

Stuff Explorer

Data navigator - Collapsed View

Stuff Explorer

Data navigator - Expanded View

The menu options of the window will give you access to “Add Stuff” wizard, the “Stuff action legend” and the help system.



The Stuff Editor: “Edit Stuff” and “View Stuff”

Using one of those options will launch the stuff editor with either read or read/write access. This window gives a precise snapshot of the stuff

viewed/edited. Separator line colours reflect the status of the stuff that can change from “Available”, “Reserved”, “Validated” or “Question

pending” (i.e. Yellow, Green, Red, and Blue). The menu of this window gives access to the same set of actions defined in the “Stuff Explorer”.

Stuff Editor

Read only mode Stuff Editor

Read and Write mode



Parameters

Parameters will give you flexibility in using StuffBee, the following options are already available: Seeking range, Professional mode, Free object

notification, Yes/No question notification, Animation mode, Graphic themes and Default search category.

StuffBee Parameters

Limitations

This version of StuffBee running on the Android emulator has the following

limitations:

- Real geographical stuff browsing is not available. - Phone and SIM number are virtually generated.

- Pictures are limited to the picture emulator. - Emulators need permanent online access.



What’s next?

For Android Developer Challenge phase II, we planned the following: - Thanks Open Handset Alliance!

- Include an integrated help system based on our presentation component,

- Add real time seamless service notification, - Implement multiple screen resolution more efficiently,

- Include Stuff “search agents” like in “Monster.com”, - Add censure and Y/N questions,

- Add a summary action panel to regroup actions to perform (validate, questions, calls …),

- Insert a “Pro mode” to provide “give and take” association users with advanced filtering, custom stuff list display, custom search

geographical sectors …).

- Translate StuffBee into 70 languages, - Open StuffBee database to other “Give and take”

websites/applications to enrich their content with stuff captured on Android mobiles. The reverse operation may also be possible,

- As a minimum, insert 4 graphic skins to better target the user audience : Classic, Fancy Man, Fancy Woman and Childish,

- Introduce 3D GUI, - Integrate additional Android features or third party plug-ins that will

ease life of our users.

Links

Website: http://www.stuffbee.com

Screencast: http://www.stuffbee.com/en/screencast.htm

Authors

Android Developer : Sebastien Yriarte Soap server Developer : Guilhem Bonnafous

Graphic Designer : Michel Salillas

- Thank you for reading and testing StuffBee! -

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