General

• Clean up code
• Convert unnecessary singletons into regular classes

Profile

• Set default image for new user
• Refresh button
• Alert user if they're not connected to Spotify before refreshing
• Show "now playing"
• Fix "now playing" label

Song:

• Display something other than the connect to spotify button
• Skip/skip to previous
• Play/pause

Matches:

• Rethink matching algorithm
• Fix profile image issue when refreshing
• Deselect cell after click

Discover

• Show related artists
• Save related artists once

SDK:

• Set up Spotify SDK
• Test - log in with Spotify account
• Test - play a song on the app

Parse:

• Set up Parse server
• Test - add an object, make sure it appears in Back4App
• Add Parse log-in/sign-up screen
• Save username info to database
• Persist Parse log-in

Launch Screen:

• Create launch screen

Profile:

• Log out button

Songs:

• Make "Connect with Spotify" button disappear after Spotify authorization

UI Set Up:

• Tab bar controller for home + profile views
• Set app icon and tab bar icons
• Autolayout (add stack views to home and log-in)

Web API:

• Extract access token from url
• Get user's top songs and artists

Profile:

• User can add a profile picture from camera roll/take a photo
• Username displayed on profile picture
• Set up table view for viewing user's top artists/tracks
• Move logout button to profile screen
• Display user's top songs and artists

Messages:

• User can post messages for other users to see
• User can see messages from other users
• Messages are saved to back4app
• Move keyboard up when textfield is tapped
• Add bubbles for chat messages
• Add pull-to-refresh for messages
• Add character limit for messages

Other:

• Refactor Spotify SDK code
• Move Spotify log-in to be after Parse log-in

Matches:

• User can see other users on their Matches page
• User can click on other users
• Look into matching algorithms
  • give .25 weight to shared songs/total num of songs and .75 weight to shared artists/total num of artists (count shared songs/artists once in total)
  • add weights for top 20
  • final EQ: ((1-diff in level weights)/20) * artist/song weight
• Calculate % similarity between users
• User can see % of similarity with other users

Matches Details View:

• User can see other users' favorites
• Format other user favorites
• Make UI look better

Messages:

• Add timestamp to messages
• Don't let users send empty messages
• Implement live query
• Fix username, timestamp, displaying most recent message at the top
• Fix pull to refresh after sending a new chat
• Fix retain cycle issue
• Fix profile picture, username after send
• Fix top constraint

Profile:

• Format top tracks and artists
• Store top artists and songs in database
• Only save top artists/songs for a user once
• Refactor fetching + saving top data
• Show updated profile picture immediately

Required:

• Use at least one external library to add visual polish
• At least one animation (e.g. fade in/out, e.g. animating a view growing and shrinking)
• Tap gesture

Areas of Improvement:

Parse:

• Make author and track local models, remove these from parse
• Make Spotify Top Items Data (STID) parse model
• Move data from old models to new one

Profile:

• Show top info immediately without having to switch tabs
• Display album and song images
• Don't save empty favorites
• Persisted user can see top artists and songs without authenticating through Spotify
• Refactor api call and parse query code (incorporate STID)

Messages:

• Fix date after send

Matches Details:

• Refactor parse query code (incorporate STID)
• Increase displayed percentage