ToDo List 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: Mihir Thatte
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:
- 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: [I've zero experience building Android Apps hence can't really comment on this. But as far as IDE is concerned, I have build several projects using eclipse, and I must say Android studio is better than eclipse.].
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: [ArrayAdapter act as an interface between ArrayLists and List view. It binds contents from list view to ArrayList].
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
In EditItemActivity.java class, I didn't set up event listener on save button. As a result, the app kept on crashing on pressing the save button. In order to debug, I figure out impressive feature of Android studio's debugging mode which helped me zero down on the actual problem. Initially, I thought, defining on click method would do the required functionality but still couldn't figure out the reason for app crashing. Setting up event listener helped me eliminate the proble
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