APP

Notepad Extraordinaire 

Alex Place, Jack Tremblay, Xavier Vogel

Screen Shots

Features

• Menu
• Notepad
• Wooer
• Conversion Option
• Checklist

Description

This app takes away problems that everyday people have. First, there is the main menu which has buttons to take you to the other features of the app. There is an option for a notepad, to record information that you need to remember, as well as a checklist so you can check off things that you needed to do. A conversion option allows you to convert between commonly used units, ex: Cm->In, Km->Mi, or Kg->Lbs. Those are just some of the options you can choose from. Another feature is a Wooer. This allows you to press a button and it gives you a randomly generated pick up line to use.

Reflection Questions:

1. Reflect on the creative process you used. What was useful? Discuss your reflection with your partner and then write a reflection individually.

•   Brainstorming helped a lot because it got all of our ideas onto one page, and allowed us to pick and choose the best ideas and then pick the idea that we wanted to create an app about. In the end, we used several ideas in the app.

2. Reflect on the team dynamic. What helped the team work well together? Discuss your reflection with your partner and then write a reflection individually.

• We worked well as a group to add on and improve the app. When one feature of the app was nearing completion, Xavior decided to take it upon himself to remake the whole app at his house, so me and Jack didn't have as much say in what the finished project looked like as we would've liked. The end product was very good however.

3. What Problem was your APP attempting to solve?  How well does it?

• Our app solved many basic problems that people might encounter everyday. One of the features is a notepad, which allows people to record information to remember in the future. Another feature is the Conversion. This allows you to choose a conversion and plug in a number and it gives you the correct number in the right units.

4. Desribe the two hardest challenges you experienced when coding this app.  How did you overcome them.  Post a screen shot of these sections of code, and explain them.

• One of the hardest challenges was figuring out the layout for the notepad. We had trouble finding the best way to lay it out, and how to code it so that the text box for the note would pop up after a long click.  Another challenge that gave us difficulty was simplifying the code instead of having it very complex. the code was getting very repetitive and lengthy. There was a lot of times that we had to hide everything on the screen but a few buttons or even a text box.

5. Given more time how could you improve your game?

• If we would've had more time, we could improve on some designs and add more features to the app. we had a lot of good ideas that could have went into the app, but we ran out of time so we had to stick with the ideas that we thought were the best.

The app can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BymCBWS7qeK-N0FsdVhuMmxGSzQ

AI2 Source File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BymCBWS7qeK-c3lqNTVVRTFCeDg