Airdrop-2.0

Objective

Airdrop-2.0 is intended to be able to send files across internet networks from one device to another. However, for simplicity's sake, we will build it to send files within the same network.

Setup

Ultimately, a makefile or .sh file would be best to run and have it execute everything needed. However, for now, loosely follow the following instructions to setup from scratch:

• Ensure the latest version of Python and pip is installed
• Create a project folder: mkdir airdrop_2.0, cd airdrop_2.0
• Within the project folder, create a virtual environment: python3 venv airdrop_venv
• Within the project folder, clone this repo: git clone <repo_url>
• Activate the virtual environment (within the project folder airdrop_2.0): source airdrop_venv/bin/activate
• Install tqdm: pip install tqdm

Database Setup

• the make setup command should install all necessry dependencies
• the database class inside the database module has the following methods:
  • addUser: appends new users to the Google sheet
    • arguments: user name (string), IP address (string)
    • returns: nothing
  • findUser: determines if the username is already in the database
    • returns: True if user already found, False if user not already found
  • getUser: -returns: user's ip address based on username if found, False if no user found
  • sheetDump: prints out all users
• more features to be added to accomodate encryption keys

Features

The features of our proposed program are as follows:

• Interface our program with a modern GUI
• Store and update all necessary info of customer's computers in a cloud database to streamline the connection between computers
• Allow access from one customer's computer to another if in the same network (should we add security?)
• Compress, encrypt, and transmit files between customers