Cognitia is the annual technical festival of National Institute of Technology , Meghalaya. Cognitia literally meaning the 'I think therefore I am' is a celebration of the creative spirit and youthful energy inherent in the college students.
This is the repository for the official app of Cognitia 2018
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The app includes the following features:
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Information about various events happening during Cognitia. The events are divided into three broad categories:
- Technical: Robotics events
- Departmental: Events from the five departments: CSE, Civil, EE, ECE and Mechanical, of NIT Mrghalaya.
- Other events: Various other events like Gaming, E-Cell, Arpeggio(The singing night) and Shimmer(The competition for mr. and mrs fresher).
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Details of members of various teams.
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Sechedule of the events.
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Registrationm forms of different events.
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A navigation drawer that facilitates navigating through the app.
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Links to other social media accounts of Cognitia
The app makes use of the following technologies:
- App makes use of the new and improved
AndroidXlibraries in place of theSupport Libraries - Uses
Android App Bundlesthat helps in reducing APK size on Play Store by dynamically generating APKs as per the device - Firebase Realtime Database
- Firebase UI (Uses Firebase Recycler Adapter)
- Glide (for loading images)
- Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
- Lottie (for displaying animations in intro slider)
- And many others..., some of which are mentioned below.
A big thanks goes to the developers of the following libraries. The app wouldn't have been possible:
- CrescentoImageView by Shivam Satija
- TapTargetView by KeepSafe
- Glide by Bump Technoloigies
- Lottie for Android by Airbnb
- VerticalViewPager by Antoine Merle
- Android-Gif-Drawable by Karol Wrótniak