CS 436 Lecture 10 – Web Services
Before Class Blu Read about JSON (http://www.json.org). Read the Fat-free Alternative to XML (http://www.json.org/fatfree.html). Watch http://youtu.be/TyMPDtHiK34. Gold Watch at 2x speed Doug Crockford’s history of JSON (http://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs). I like this part: http://youtu.be/-C-JoyNuQJs?t=39m55s. Watch http://youtu.be/sjnNfc_HuYQ. In Class Haiku
CS 436 Lecture 11 – Mobile Filesystems
Before Class Blu Read Saving Files (http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/files.html). Read Storage Options (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html). Watch http://youtu.be/LmyJAd7hW5A. Gold Read About the iOS File System (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html). Read Accessing Files and Directories (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/AccessingFilesandDirectories/AccessingFilesandDirectories.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010672-CH3-SW3). Watch http://youtu.be/kjDD8Ho0UNc. In Class Please work on your apps.
Tender – Maria & Kristin
Tender is a recipe app that is similar to the app “Tinder”. A picture of food pops up, and you can swipe right to see the recipe, or left to discard and see a new one. As a user you can continue to to view and swipe through the pictures. If you swipe to the […]
UHack – OnTarget
This application was developed over roughly 24 hours at a hacking contest at UMN. As this was our first application we wrote for android, we had to literally jump right in and get things working. Unfortunately the APIs have been shut down but it was a lot of fun getting to throw things together. We […]
CS 436 Lecture 9 – Navigation
Before Class Blu Watch http://youtu.be/Qya0Ab-l5jg. Read Say Goodbye to the Menu Button (http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2012/01/say-goodbye-to-menu-button.html). Skim Action Bar (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html). Gold Watch http://youtu.be/5DrcPQ53dXY. Weep over the lack of focused and up-to-date documentation on UINavigationController. In Class Work on your apps, please.
Invisible Inc
The project is in collaboration between Aaron Emmert, Tim Beckman, and Jamison Ebert. Fundamentally, we wanted to design app that adds a level of depth an complexity to a relatively simple tool without compromising any of that simplicity and ease of use it has to offer. We observed larger companies like Apple and Google for […]
CS 436 Lecture 8 – Localization
Before Class Blu Watch http://youtu.be/YyghjgznVMo. Read Internationalization Tutorial for iOS (http://www.raywenderlich.com/64401/internationalization-tutorial-for-ios-2014). Read Localizing with Plurals and Genders (http://objectivetoast.com/2014/04/21/localizing-with-plurals-and-genders). Gold Watch http://youtu.be/qwn2bdESXdY. Poke at Language Plural Rules (http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html). Read Localization Checklist (https://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/localization-checklist.html). In Class Work on your apps, please.
CS 436 Lecture 7 – UITableView and Persistence
Before Class Blu Read Ry’s Objective C Tutorial: Properties (http://rypress.com/tutorials/objective-c/properties.html). Read Creating and Configuring a Table View (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/tableview_iphone/CreateConfigureTableView/CreateConfigureTableView.html). Watch http://youtu.be/RWg4tiT28TY. Gold Watch http://youtu.be/4-1C7Qe-FAc. Read iOS SDK: Working with NSUserDefaults (http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ios-sdk-working-with-nsuserdefaults–mobile-6039). Read iOS UIViewController Lifecycle (http://rdkw.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/ios-uiviewcontroller-lifecycle). Read Managing the Activity Lifecycle (http://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/index.html). In Class Work!
Alphabet Soup
I am developing a word game. In this you will be given a set of scrambled up letters in a bowl of soup. Your goal is to arrange all the letters into a single word as fast as you can to move onto the next screen. I am hoping to have a few different single […]
Turnt Simulator
Cody Wanless Zach Forster College years are complicated times. Students are expected to fit two lifestyles into one life. On one hand, peers and professors expect that one takes his/her future seriously, involving oneself in an abnormal number of activities, “leadership” roles, reading many dozens of pages each day, writing papers, proving theorems, etc. On […]