Google Summer of Code 2021 - Work Product

zulip-gsoc-2021.md

Google Summer of Code 2021 - Zulip

This is a report of work done by me on Zulip Mobile for the summer of 2021, under the Google Summer of Code Mentorship Program.

This was a very insightful experience for me and I learned a lot of things about the day to day life of a software engineer, and what goes into building and maintaining a software product.

Brief of my work during GSoC

My work during the summer involved

• The completion and enhancement of the Share to Zulip functionality that was partially completed during the summer of 2020 as a GSoC project by another student.
• Work on changing the Notification UI for the app, to be more user friendly.
• Implementation of Deep Linking feature with which the app can be opened from a URL.
• Fetching Message data when a notification is recieved.
• Work on improving action sheets (logic and features).
• Work on improving search feature.
• Bug fixes.

Merged PRs during GSoC

• Share To Zulip 1
• Share To Zulip 2
• Multiple Share To Zulip
• Update the Behavior of Attach File Functionality
• Add mark as read option in TopicActionSheet and migrate to using stream_id in ActionSheets
• Fix Bug that prevented play store from displaying Zulip as installable for some users
• Make getInitialNotification a consumer of initial notification data
• Make wifi hardware requirement optional
• Fix parameter order for onPress
• Remove meaningless properties in rnfb config
• Remove fileCache property from rnfb config
• Fix behavior of "do not mark as read", and make it discoverable
• Do not mark as read for search and special Narrow
• Remove default text Color on Android
• Drop support for API < 23
• Search only on submit, not as you type

Open PRs at this Point of Time

• Fetch data when notification is received
• Reply from notification in Android
• Improve Notification UI (partially merged)
• Implement & Enable deep link functionality for android
• Implement stream action sheets

All my PRs (latest) are available here