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Hello to all our avid followers! Team Newspaper is back again with our first progress report.

This week (and some part of last week), we have begun planning the build of the Augustana Observer app.  We have taken some initial steps to get us as ready as possible to begin the actual software developing of the app.

The first step, of course, was to meet with our clients, the Observer team, and learn what they wanted in the app for design and features.  The general idea seemed to be that the simpler the better and that they wanted the app to push out notifications for breaking stories or even certain types of stories.  Simple enough, right? 😁Obviously, this will be a more touch and go process so we'll be meeting up with them again soon to keep us going in the right direction.  We also plan on meeting with their designers to see what they had in mind when it comes to the design aspect, something we all agreed would be great since none of us have much experience doing that!

Some other steps taken were to look into the different pieces of software that we will need to understand going forward, such as push notifications and getting information from a website, in our case the Observer site itself.  We were able to get two working prototypes of each software so we are definitely in good shape there!

We are excited to get started coding soon and hope to make ways before we go on break!