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Room Locator App

Room Locator App. Aabhas Sharma Vinayak Gokhale Yehia Khoja. Main Points: . Introduction Hardware Software Resources Choosing an App Initial Design Challenges Faced Revised Design Future Directions. Introduction:. Hardware used: Mac and Windows based computers

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Room Locator App

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  1. Room Locator App Aabhas Sharma VinayakGokhale YehiaKhoja Room Locator App

  2. Room Locator App Main Points: • Introduction • Hardware • Software • Resources • Choosing an App • Initial Design • Challenges Faced • Revised Design • Future Directions

  3. Room Locator App Introduction: • Hardware used: • Mac and Windows based computers • Android based Phone • Software used: • Android SDK • Eclipse IDE for Java EE developers • Android Apps created where for the 2.0.1 platform • Resources: • Android developer website:developer.android.com • Research on Google and YouTube

  4. Room Locator App Choosing an App: • Create an App with a new idea and that is useful • With Purdue’s huge campus, it is almost impossible to know where each room in each building is located. • Therefore create an app that shows you where rooms in buildings are located

  5. Room Locator App Initial Design: • The user inputs the building and room he wants • The app uses the inputs to search for a specific floor plan in a certain building • The app displays the floor plan on the screen • Finally, it highlights the room chosen on the floor plan

  6. Room Locator App Challenges with initial design: • Creating and using a database: • Insufficient because it will need to store all images for all floor plans • It requires a script to search through the database to find the correct image • Highlighting the room: • We need to store coordinates of the room in the database • Use coordinates to dynamically draw a box that covers the room

  7. Room Locator App Solutions for these issues: • Upload the floor plan images on a web server • The android device can then access the correct website and fetch the correct image from it • In addition we upload separate images with highlighted rooms on them • Finally when we can get an image of the floor plan with the highlighted room by entering the correct website

  8. Room Locator App Final Design: • For taking the inputs • Use drop down menus to give the user choices for buildings and rooms • After selecting a building and a room, the app creates a string • Finally the string is encoded into a URL address that pulls the appropriate image with the highlighted room

  9. Room Locator App Final Design • Creating the URL address: • The code contains a premade URL address which is missing the building name and room number • The inputs are used to fill in the blanks in the URL address • The floor is determined through the first digit in the room number • Finally the building name and room are concatenated in the URL address

  10. Room Locator App Main Things learned/Things to be kept in mind for next time.. • Intent and permissions • For the first half of the semester we couldn’t get the code to pull any data from the internet. Just 3 weeks back we figured out that the permissions for accessing the internet needed to be added through the Android Manifest • This is also what generates the permissions list on a real android phone when an application is downloaded from the market

  11. Room Locator App Main Things learned/Things to be kept in mind for next time..(2) • Memory leaks, memory leaks, memory leaks • What are memory leaks? - A memory leak or leakage in computer science is a particular type of memory consumption by a computer program where the program is unable to release memory it has acquired. • When it can be caused – Initialize a pointer and don’t de-initialize(not a problem in Java, no pointers!) • Open a file and don’t close it etc.

  12. Room Locator App Main Things learned/Things to be kept in mind for next time..(3) • While uploading the application to the market, you have to make your license validity at least 50 years • You can’t upload an app with the debug license • Make sure if you use a new icon in the resources folder it is 48X48 and the format is PNG.

  13. Room Locator App Layouts • Android supports different sorts of layouts that can be chosen/defined in the XML file • Absolute layout provides the most flexibility, linear layout provides a rigid and formal layout

  14. Room Locator App Errors in dev. Environment • Often a time, the team faced an error when creating a new AVD(Android Virtual Device), there would be no network connection. • Troubleshooting – Make sure your computer is connected to the internet. • If that isn’t the problem, restart the AVD and that restores the connection(known bug)

  15. Room Locator App Future Directions: • Provide room to room directions – Ask user present location and desired destination – Draw the path • Upload information about more buildings on the web server • Enhance the look of the program • Double check it for any bugs or memory leaks • Publish it in the Android app store!

  16. Room Locator App Latest Updates! • Purdue VIP finally has the Android Dev License! • We can start publishing our apps, however MAKE SURE there are no memory leaks • We have published our app but we downgraded it to 1.6 to test on Aabhas’s phone • Also, we have not linked the floor plan images as we were not yet sure about the security implications

  17. Room Locator App Screen Shot – Room Locator App

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