MDDN 352, Project 3. New layout and user feedback

So coming from the beta presentation we have actually changed several of our icons and most of the pages have been put in.

Over the past week I havent been able to do much work on the app because I have had hands in for MDDN 314 as well as MDDN 343. But now that both of those projects are all done and dusted I can focus all of my time on making this app work and look good.

The networking students have done some stuff to the server so that most of the information which we need is going to be ready for us to put in.

So here is the new layout which we have got into eclipse and everything is working perfectly fine at the moment.

This actually looks a lot better than the original and it definitely tells the user that it has something to do with recycling. Even though we all like this layout and we have also implemented indenting when the button is held down, Joss still doesn't like the look of the app and wants to change the icons again. At this stage we only have a week to go and if he keeps making changes like this than we just cant have them in. There is a lot of code which is depending on the size of the images as well as the layout so it wont be a easy fix to just change the image. I have decided that if he wants to make new icons again then he can but he has to get them done by at least 2 days before hand in so I can make sure that these changes dont effect anything else in a bad way.

The vibrating has been put in and whenever the users finger leaves the screen when they push a button than it will vibrate for 1 second. It wasn't that hard to implement. I had to make it that the vibrator had permission to be used in the app and then just set a vibrator variable when the page is created. Along with that I just had to set when the vibrate will go off in the java. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.
We also found out that not everybody likes it when the vibrator goes off so we have decided to make the user be able to turn it on and off if they wish. To do that we overrode the actually button on all android phones which you use when you want to see other options. Here we but the choice to turn the vibrating on and off and if we have time we are also going to add sound onto that as well.

One thing which we are all quite confused about it what actually happens when the about or database button is pressed. There has been quite abit of confusion with if they are both actually the same thing. When Joss first pitched us the idea what he was saying is that the about screen goes to a page which tells you some stats about the actual app, like how many times have this app been downloaded, or how many scans have there been. The database button will go to a page which tells you about the information about the products which were scanned.