jmankhan/bergdiningapp

bergdiningapp's Issues

Design rating system scheme

Put white line under title bar

Create icons or styles for each station to display on menu

Color coordinate and create aesthetically pleasing sorted list

@jmankhan

Setup data structure for menu items

Menu items will be stored in a 2d ArrayList corresponding to meal time and day of the week. All items will have variables for name, description, meal time and day of the week, etc. and nutritional facts will be stored in a hashmap.

Collaborate with Bryan to get main view page up and running

Getting Familiar with Github

Since I have never used GitHub before, I need to review and analyze how to participate with my team through GitHub.

Create a Favorites activity where favorites are listed

Find images to use for menu

We should probably get around 50 more on top of the ones we have. No need to spend a ton of time on assets before the code is functional. Remember to keep it opensource
@PaiHuoLong
@bcross424

Create menu activity and xml files

Due Thursday 11/18

Create a Parsing class

url:https://berg-dining.herokuapp.com/berg

Design the layout for Favorites list

Figure out what the favorites list is going to look like and how it will function. Have some pseudocode ready and be able to defend and explain it. FYI, we can save personal user preferences on their device through the Android API. Just write "save to system"/"read from system" if you would like to do anything like that.

Add a splash screen

Create more filters for search view

Possibly improve appearance as well

Use Picasso to load images efficiently

I ran into some memory problems and very slow response times trying to load images manually into the menu. I looked into some libraries that could do it better, and I think we should use Picasso (not the same as Picasa). I've added the dependency to gradle and I'll see how the performance is

Write code to dynamically write xml pages for each meal time

Will use a standardized layout to dynamically create meal time pages.

Create a runnable theme on Android

Should be modularized enough to create different themes.
Should be called from an Activity.
Should not crash at any point.

Get used to JSoup by parsing JSON file

Trying to get used to this now, so that we can start writing the actual code after we meet with Dining Services tomorrow and figure out what kind of source we will be pulling our data from.

Master list in searchview is being modified

Fix it

Implement a way to track and save favorites per user

Add private_app save file to store downloaded xml data

This may take a while for me to figure out, any help would be appreciated.

Figure out how to match up images to menu items

This can be done server side, client side, or on the db. We need an efficient scheme to assign images to items. Try not to do everything on one device, as it will likely bottleneck on either the network or the cpu

Research and learn android XML layouts.

Since I have no prior experience with android graphical layout programming, I need to research, practice and implement all that goes with the XML format.

Meet with Berg Dining

Discuss:
Access to master menu
Access to pictures/stats/resources
Access to Berg Bucks
Talk to iOS guy?

Partership opportunities:
Advertising in Wood Dining
Rating System
Feedback
Logo

Alter code to pull data from saved xml file

App should use the .xml file that is saved on the device. upon start-up the app will check with server to verify it has the latest information.

Create a detailed view of each item

Consider different design options like master/detail view, dialog, etc.

Make sure to include nutrition information

Create design surveys to pass out

Find out what people want! We have workable designs now, do they want lists? icons? images or text? Sorting? Searching? Be thorough but concise! Have this ready by Monday's meeting.

Remake BergParser

The xml file he gave us is completely different than what we expected

Handle days where Dining Services is closed

Implement Viewpager to swipe through mealtimes and days in menu

Consider using 3rd party slideshow view

https://github.com/marvinlabs/android-slideshow-widget

Use Parsing class to connect to server

Establish status code, network reliability, switching networks (wifi/4g/3g), maintaining connection between Activity changes, and using Asynchronous functions

Research best approach to connecting to server

Asynchronous methods, Handlers, and Receivers should be looked at in particular. I have the most experience with Async methods, but I think Handlers are a bit better, and there may be new alternatives since the last time I've used Android.

Create a searchview for the menu

Complete the home page functionally and visually

Comeplete view, models, and controllers. Should be easy to transition to from splash, backpress, app close, orientation change, network issues, etc. Everyone will work on this together next meeting, we should finish it by the end of the meeting.

@PaiHuoLong
@bcross424

Find images for each image id

A text file of each image id will be uploaded to wiki

Get familiar with using Intents to navigate between Android Activities

decide on common terminology for easy integration of java code into app

While I've already started working on the code to convert the JSON file into java meal objects, it occurred to me that we should probably discuss the attribute names as well as the structure we want to use (ArrayList, Map or some other data structure). That way I can start organizing them rather than having a bunch of seperate objects.

Code a class that converts the JSON file into a 2D ArrayList of FoodItems

Understanding Heroku

Since our team is using Heroku to manage our server application, some basic research is needed to become familiar with Heroku, although Jalal will will be the main teammate interacting with the Heroku Site.

Write the XML layout for our main android activity.

The main activity for our app is our first goal, so I am starting to write a layout to match the design we brainstormed and decided on.