MDDN 352, Project 3, ANOTHER NEW LAYOUT!!!!!!!!!

So this app is due in a couple days. It was about 90% done and there were only a couple of small touches which we needed to do and most of them were from the server side. And then Joss decided to do ANOTHER layout. This time it is a lot different than the old ones. He realized that we had sort of gone off track with us wanting to have everything easily accessible. We showed our app to Ben Jack and he said that he thinks it would be a lot nicer if we had only 2 buttons per page. So that is what we did.

For this new layout we made a new button called recycling. This button goes onto another page which is where all the things that the user needs for the recycling part of the app is.

The about button goes to a page where it give information about the app itself. Originally we wanted there to be several sets of data on that page

• Number of Scans personally
• Number of Overall Scans
• Number of Recycling bins taged personally
• Total number of bins taged
• and the most recycled type of product.

We weren't able to implement the personal onces because that is data which we have to set with the phone and we would have to use caching to be able for it to save that information. We almost got it working but we ran out of time so we decided to take it out.

The other 3 are in the app though and are working properly

Well back to the main screen and when the user presses the Recycle button it takes them to this page.

From this page everything is pretty much the same. The only difference is that on the page where you either get a successful scan, this is where you find the database button. We wanted to add it in there because it gives the user a little extra bonus which you can only get once you have scanned and recycled a product.

Adding this new layout was kind of annoying as it means that there was a lot of our java code which wasn't being used and was making the app slow. It took a bit of time to get rid of all the unnecessary  code but I eventually got it out. After this most of the app is done and all that we need now is to make the video and prepare for our final presentation