Contrary to the lack of blog posts the weekend project is not dead. I’ve been quite busy in the week with university work, among other things so I’ve just not had time to write up what I’ve been doing.
I still don’t have a lot of free time so this write up will be fairly brief. Hopefully the pictures and screenshots will keep you amused!
What I’ve done
I’ve done a fair bit of sketching of interface ideas. It’s mainly revolved around the neighbourhood information activity, as this is where the meat of the information in the API lives. I’ve also given some though as to how to get users to this activity as quickly as possible. Search will play a big part of this and it’s something that I no longer think I can afford to leave out of the first version of the application.
I’ve also started implementing some of these sketches. These are very rough so far (as you can see from the titlebar being completely unfinished) but only took a couple of hours work to get them implemented. You can also clearly see which activity has had the most effort put into it.
The coming weeks
My plan is to keep on working on this as much a I can. I’m resisting the temptation to do university work at weekends but as deadlines get tighter this is going to get harder and harder. I plan on implementing search as soon as I can and then finish off the UI work. After that it will just be tidying up and testing.