At CTA stops, when checking wait times, the user must repeatedly type the CTA's short code while sending a text message. Or they must navigate through their long list of text-message threads to locate their previous texts to the CTA. This is repetitive and unnecessary.
This app provides an improvement in user-experience because it reduces cognitive load within users. Features which reduce cognitive load are:
- Offloading tasks, like storing the CTA's short code (41411), which enables an SMS to be sent in the background.
- A numeric keypad replaces the QWERTY keyboard, which speeds the ability for a user to hone and tap.
This is a video of the Android app in action:
This is an example video of how you would interact with the CTA's track by text feature without this Android app:
Check out the different res/layout and res/drawable-* for an understanding of how to make responsive interfaces for multiple device sizes in Android. More extensive documentation to follow...