MDDN 352, Project 3, Development

So far Eclipse hasn't really been that difficult to try and learn. I actually think that this would be a lot easier to make an app than flash builder would be. The only downside to it is that I dont think that it exports onto IOS devices so we are going to stick with Android devices for this project but we might try and expand if people like this app.

At the moment I am just trying to get the layout of our app sorted. 

Joss has made 4 icons which represent the 4 page of our app. He has also has laid them out how we want them to look like so that I can make it look like it in eclipse.

We thought that we would go for the plain white and green colour style because we are focusing mainly on recycling. We also want to make everything to be able to be excessed with using only 2 clicks to get to any page. 

Implementing these into eclipse though was actually a little of a challenge. I am using a relative layout which means you set every image to be relative to something, ie. scan barcode icon is always set to the left of the statistics button. Something which eclipse doesn't like though is circular dependancies. by that I mean I cant say that the scan barcode icon is the the left of the stats button, and also say that the stats button is also only to the right of the scan barcode button.  This doesn't sound like that it is much of a big deal but its only a problem when there are other images in them like the bar which is at the top of the screen.

We have also just been told that our beta presentation of our app is now on the 7th of June. Unfortunately that is the day after the Advanced Game Beta so I have a lot of work to do to get all of these working by then