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: Rocio Romero
Time spent: *64 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:
- List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
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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: This is not my first time with Android development. It's always a pleasure to come back after day work doing really different things. The environment gets improved really fast and it's really easy to create your layout using the provided widgets. It's always good to learn new practices and features for Android!
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: I used my own custom Adapter because I wanted to use a more custom representation of each row including priority and deadline. An adapter is used in order to represent each element of our set of data into a View. getView is the method that describe how to represent the element at the specific position included as parameter. convertView is used to check if existing view is being reused, otherwise you need to inflate the view when you are creating the specific View for the position.
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
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