Learn To Count-premortem “Ian Brown, Jake Vosters”
This app will be an introductory in how to count to ten in different languages. We will have the user say one through ten and only move on when they say the word correctly in the given language set on the device. ex: if the devices language is set to Spanish the device will display […]
leveler-premortem “Jake Vosters,Ian Brown”
This app is used for people who don’t have room to keep a big clunky level around but need to level off pictures or shelves. Points: we worked on these tasks together, we didn’t really divvy it up 1) Employ integrated sensors into an app.
IOU Postmortem
A few of interesting challenges I had to deal with were firstly, I made my database really slow by not having only one instance of the data manager. I had to refactor my code so it was faster. I also had some trouble testing some of my features mainly the send text message function because […]
Travel Pics postMortem
The most difficult problem with this app was probably using the async task to send in the gps latitude and longitude to a web server and receive a Json object of the location you are currently at. Trying to do this with eclipse and the AVD was a little iffy as it was not always […]
CS 436 Lecture 25 – Push Notifications
Push Notifications? Push notifications are messages sent to an application that is not actively requesting them. From an operating systems perspective, the application is not polling for information, but is instead awaiting an interrupt. In a sense, push notifications are like phone calls or text messages. However, phone calls and text messages are typically used to interrupt another […]
CS 436 Lecture 24 – O Marks The Spot
The app we’ll write today is inspired by the Reverse Geocache Puzzle. Intel software engineer Mikal Hart had a friend who was getting married. This friend had introduced him to Arduino, a cheap computer that can be programmed and integrated into small appliances. Mikal returned the favor by giving him an Arduino-powered wedding gift: a box […]
CS 436 Lecture 23 – Maps
Code activity_main.xml AndroidManifest.xml Utilities.java Placemark.java MainActivity.java
Exek Postmortem
Exek This is an app that will enable you to keep track of a simple inventory. The inventory contains categories along with items in each category. The items have an associated quantity that can be edited. The items are stored in a database using SQLite and persisted on the phone. In the category view, an […]
CS 436 Lecture 22 – Sensors
Code activity_main.xml MainActivity.java NeedleView.java activity_main.xml MainActivity.java
The Cat’s Meow – Postmortem (Maria & Kristin)
One challenge we overcame creating this app was getting the camera to work, it ended up being trickier than we thought. Another challenge was integrating the voice command. A great insight gained was that there is a multitude of great resources on Google and using them to your advantage makes writing an Android app much […]