[WIP] MCNotifier - Receive Notifications On Your Smart Devices! [Devs needed]

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    mazentheamazin

    MCNotifier

    What is it?
    MCNotifier is a Bukkit plugin and application which would notify you on your smart-phones, smart-watches, almost any smart devices on suspicious activity on your server, server shutdowns, server startups, and notifications you can configure to be informed on or not.

    How is MCNotifier supposed to help me?
    MCNotifier will make it easier to run your server, and relieve you of any stress of anything going on while you're away from your server. Notifier will allow you to manage these issues on the go, so you can move on with your life while running your server.

    Devices to support
    Open for idea's/suggestions
    As of right now, I only have a very general idea for what I want this to come out as. If you have ANY ideas for the plugin, feel free to contact me at [email protected] or PM me on Bukkit or BukkitDev

    Developers are needed!
    Notifier is looking for developers that fit these positions:
    • iOS Application Front-End Developer
    • iOS Application Back-End Developer
    If you're interested in one or more of these positions, contact me at [email protected]or PM me on Bukkit or BukkitDev!

    MCNotifier is Open-Source!
    Check out the source-code here! PR's are welcome :)

    Reserved

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    Ty Cleere

    This seems like a good idea!! But i currently am to busy to help sorry :(
     
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    Onlineids

    mazentheamazin Dang 4 reserved what are you planning to do, code it from bukkit o.0
     
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    laptopdude

    I'm available to help.
     
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    mazentheamazin

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    mazentheamazin

    Everybody welcome laptopdude as the iOS Backend and Frontend developer! And SpartahMC as the plugins Graphics Designer!
     
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    MisterJeremail

    I can do java and network code :)
     
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    mazentheamazin

    MisterJeremail
    As of now, I have already done the networking framework (look here) . If you have experience working with Android, PM me.
     
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    MisterJeremail

    mazentheamazin oh, so you don't plan to provide a service then, just a utility to host a server for the client apps?
     
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    mazentheamazin

    MisterJeremail
    Currently, we're not going to provide a service; if a suggestion for a specific service comes in, then we might provide that, depending on what it is.
     
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    mazentheamazin I just thought you might want to have the server just connect to the 'service', where it posts status messages, and the various clients don't directly connect to the server but rather to the 'service'.
    This way you can still get new messages if the server is down, also you don't have to rely on connectivity tests to see if the server is down
     
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    mazentheamazin

    MisterJeremail
    Generally, we would still have to connect to the session server (Our session server in scenario) to check if the server is down. We might implement your idea once the application is out (as most probably we will add advertisements on the app); however until then, we'll stick with connectivity tests.
     
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    Now we just need a couple idiots doing intentional suspicious activities to spam your mobile devices!

    Edit: By the way, this sounds like a really cool idea!
     
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    MisterJeremail

    mazentheamazin how does the session server stuff work? And if you do, I'd be delighted to help :3
     
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    mazentheamazin

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    MisterJeremail

    mazentheamazin No, I mean why do you have a session server if you still directly connect to the serverplugin or do you not?
     
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    mazentheamazin

    MisterJeremail
    No, like I said before, there is no use in having a session server as response times would be slower than if we used connectivity tests.
     
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    MisterJeremail

    mazentheamazin oh, I thought it would be like an uptime monitoring system, using push rather than pull/polls
     
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    mazentheamazin

    Due to laptopdude having to resign the project, we now have the iOS Front-End and Back-End slots open!
     
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    Not2EXceL

    I'm questioning why you have 2 different back end slots. The networking should be the same
     
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    mazentheamazin

    Not2EXceL
    Well, the networking is the same for Android and the main server (As both run on Java), however, for iOS we will need somebody who is familiar with Objective-C (or Swift; if it goes until that releases) to write the backend on there as it is not in Java.
     
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    Not2EXceL

    No, no, and again no. You don't need a backend written more than once. True the front end requires an app for both OS's, but the backend should be purely packets. Clearly if you can't grasp the concept that networking can be done in multiple languages for the client and the server, then you shouldn't be working on this.

    Also java is not the language that you should be using as a backend, but if you're sending the notifications directly from the plugin then obv you have no choice. But if its through a separate backend, you best not be using java.
     
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    Not2EXceL
    I think we got ourselves confused here... By backend, I am referencing to reading the packets, interpret them and notifying the smart-device(s (accessories included)). I understand that networking can be done with multiple languages, without a doubt; we just had a little misunderstanding by my reference to 'backend developer'. My definition is actually quite correct, as to : "denoting a subordinate processor or program, not directly accessed by the user, which performs a specialized function on behalf of a main processor or software system" (reference here). The job of the back-end developer in this project is to not re-create the networking framework but to do the interpreting process.

    EDIT: Oh, I wrote 'write the backend'.. My mistake, apologies :)
     
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    mazentheamazin
    Definitions are definitions. However it should have been stated as the app's back end and not just backend. As everything has a front and back end it needs to be clear which segment is being noted. Also someone capable or writing a frontend for an app is very capable of writing the backend
     
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    Not2EXceL
    I agree with your first 2 statements and I have updated the forum post :). About "the ability to writing a front-end means they are very capable of writing the back-end" is a bit debatable, as for Android and iOS at-least you can make UIs with the drag and drop software included in the SDK (in iOS's case, its Xcode).
     
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    mazentheamazin

    Everybody welcome nicba1010 , our new Android front-end and back-end developer!
     
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    mazentheamazin

    For battery life efficiency reasons, MCNotifier will be switching to Google Cloud Messaging for all packets between Server -> Client

    After research we were able to determine that GCM will be compatible with iOS as well :)
     
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    ROTN

    Hi, I sneakily sneaked into the dev team. :)
    We still need an iOS developer.
    Also, we are no longer using GCM.
     
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    RROD

    How do you plan on integrating Google Glass support? Do you own one of the devices to test it with?
     
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