Todo is an android app that allows building a todo list and basic todo items management functionality including adding new items, editing and deleting an existing item.
Submitted by: Mathurin Bloworlf
Time spent: 8 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can successfully add and remove items from the todo list
- User can tap a todo item in the list and bring up an edit screen for the todo item and then have any changes to the text reflected in the todo list.
- User can persist todo items and retrieve them properly on app restart
The following optional features are implemented:
- Persist the todo items into SQLite instead of a text file
- Improve style of the todo items in the list using a custom adapter
- Add support for completion due dates for todo items (and display within listview item)
- Use a DialogFragment instead of new Activity for editing items
- Add support for selecting the priority of each todo item (and display in listview item)
- Tweak the style improving the UI / UX, play with colors, images or backgrounds
The following additional features are implemented:
- Added a search bar which suggest data from database as we type
- Added a floating button to add new data instead of an edittext and a button at the bottom of the activity
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
As part of your pre-work submission, please reflect on the app and answer the following questions below:
Question 1: "What are your reactions to the Android app development platform so far? Compare and contrast Android's approach to layouts and user interfaces in past platforms you've used."
Answer: Android app devlopment is very explicit and methodic. From creating a view in the layout file then access it programmatically, you won't be lost.
Question 2: "Take a moment to reflect on the ArrayAdapter used in your pre-work. How would you describe an adapter in this context and what is its function in Android? Why do you think the adapter is important? Explain the purpose of the convertView in the getView method of the ArrayAdapter."
Answer: An adapter is use to populate a view with all the datas passed to it. It automatically fills the view and knows how and where to put the informations according to how it is programmed. The 'convertView' is the old view to be reused. When scrolling and loading new data: the data that is not shown anymore frees the view so that it can be used by new data arriving.
Trying to fit some features to Android API lower than 21... still haven't fixed that.
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