v0.8

Changelog

• Upgraded Dependencies

Overview

• This app takes input from the user to set up background periodic check of a webpage for a text.
• It creates a background task to notify the user if a text is present on the web page or not.
• This task is executed repeatedly once every ~15 mins depending on the OS.
• It will also show the time check was last made.

Input Criteria

• This app asks the user for a URL and a search text.
• You can also set whether to get notification when search text is present on the webpage or when it is absent.
• You can set the webpage type to be desktop or mobile to get different html accordingly.
• You can set the search to be case sensitive or case insensitive.

Tech Stack

• React Native
  • react-native-background-fetch
  • react-native-background-task
  • react-native-push-notification
• moment.js

Testing

• Tested on Android only.
• iOS testing is pending (device unavailable)

Use Case

One use case is that we enter the URL of a movie booking website to get notified when it opens booking for a Cinema on the day we want.

v0.7

Changelog

• Added Switch for case sensitive / insensitive search
• Added switch for inverted search (showing notification when not found)

Overview

• This app takes input from the user to set up background periodic check of a webpage for a text.
• It creates a background task to notify the user if a text is present on the web page or not.
• This task is executed repeatedly once every ~15 mins depending on the OS.
• It will also show the time check was last made.

Input Criteria

• This app asks the user for a URL and a search text.
• You can also set whether to get notification when search text is present on the webpage or when it is absent.
• You can set the webpage type to be desktop or mobile to get different html accordingly.
• You can set the search to be case sensitive or case insensitive.

Tech Stack

• React Native
  • react-native-background-fetch
  • react-native-background-task
  • react-native-push-notification
• moment.js

Testing

• Tested on Android only.
• iOS testing is pending (device unavailable)

Use Case

One use case is that we enter the URL of a movie booking website to get notified when it opens booking for a Cinema on the day we want.

v0.6

Changelog

• Case in-sensitive search

NotifyAvailability

Overview

• This app asks the user for a URL, pageType (Desktop/Mobile) and a search string.
• Then it creates a background task to notify the user if that string is present on the web page (case-insensitive).
• This task is executed repeatedly once every ~15 mins depending on the OS.
• It will also show when the it was last checked.

Tech Stack

• React Native
  • react-native-background-fetch
  • react-native-background-task
  • react-native-push-notification
• moment.js

Testing

• Tested on Android only.
• iOS testing is pending (device unavailable)

Use Case

• One use case is that we enter the URL of a movie booking website to get notified when it opens booking for a Cinema on the day we want.

v0.5

Changelog

• reduced apk size by ~50%
• added Last checked visibility

NotifyAvailability

Overview

• This app asks the user for a URL, pageType (Desktop/Mobile) and a search string.
• Then it creates a background task to notify the user if that string is present on the web page.
• This task is executed repeatedly once every ~15 mins depending on the OS.
• It will also show when the it was last checked.

Tech Stack

• React Native
  • react-native-background-fetch
  • react-native-background-task

Testing

• Tested on Android only.
• iOS testing is pending (device unavailable)

Use Case

• One use case is that we enter the URL of a movie booking website to get notified when it opens booking for a Cinema on the day we want.

v0.4 - background check has error

Changelog

• reduced apk size by ~50%
• added Last checked visibility

NotifyAvailability

Overview

• This app asks the user for a URL, pageType (Desktop/Mobile) and a search string.
• Then it creates a background task to notify the user if that string is present on the web page.
• This task is executed repeatedly once every ~15 mins depending on the OS.
• It will also show when the it was last checked.

Tech Stack

• React Native
  • react-native-background-fetch
  • react-native-background-task

Testing

• Tested on Android only.
• iOS testing is pending (device unavailable)

Use Case

• One use case is that we enter the URL of a movie booking website to get notified when it opens booking for a Cinema on the day we want.

v0.3

• Added webview to preview the webpage
• Added webpage platform type to load Desktop / Mobile website

v0.2

• fixed the issue with multiple notifications coming after ~15 mins
• split the apk to smaller downloads

Initial Release (Beta) - Multiple Notification error

This is the initial Build for the app. Only meant for beta testing