team 'r' final presentation

8/7/2019 Team 'R' Final Presentation

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TEAM “R”

Chris Mowforth

Killian Polley

John McDermott

Daragh McSweeney



Panda Overview

To help promote awareness of the top 10most endangered animals worldwide.



The application itself will provide a list of thetop 10 animals under threat of extinction.

This will give the user a various amount of information about each animal.



The App will also have information on wildlifeorganisations and a guide on how to sponsor

an animal.



DevelopmentHow we did it, how it went



What we needed

from a latform

• Mobile app

• Easily accessed- viral?

• Rapid development



Options

• iPhone

• Android

• Windows Phone? Symbian?



iPhone•User-friendly

•Cool

•Expensive

•Difficult to distribute•Easy transition for developers?



Nokia?Symbian?

•HUGE number of handsets

•[Relatively] user-friendly

•Smart-phones for last decade



But...

• Handsets not what they were

• Developer’s nightmare

• Small community

•Few apps

• Nokia? Microsoft? WTF?



Android•Slick interface

•Suits our team (Java-based)

•Free [as in beer]

•Free [as in speech]•Rapid development

•Easy to ship



PandaBecause we couldn’t think of a better codename.



Overview

• Distributed team of 4

• Test-driven, extreme[ish] methodology

•Multi-platform



Android Dev wtf

• Native app

• Deliberately simple

•Easily deployed



Task management

• Based on WBS

• Used Pivotal Tracker to assign & track stuff

•Sometimes it worked!



Solution:

Pivotal•Transfer tasks from WBS

•Assigns them to peoplebased on how fast they

work, workload...



Change management-

roblems

• Fluid architecture

• Different people producing code



Change management-

solutions

• Use an SCM system

• XP- don’t commit anything that breaks the

build

• Use TDD (as much as possible)



Solution:

Git / Github•Undo button on

steroids

•See who did what

•Roll back bad design

decisions



Solution:

Testing•Write a test

•Let it fail

•Write the bare minimum code

needed to let it pass

•Sometimes restrictive?



Development Problems



New Platform

The Android system is a relatively newsoftware which means it is constantly evolving.

This meant that there was very few tutorialsout there to get help when developing theApp.

There was limited documentation on gettingstarted. This included APIs.



Slow

The process of designing the actual App wasextremely time consuming.

The emulator was very slow to use whichcaused our team a lot of frustration.

Just launching the App simulator itself took a

considerable amount of time



No one had a clue

After jumping straight into the decision of designing an android application, the generalconcern was “Ehhh has anyone any idea aboutdesigning apps”

No one on our team had ever worked withanything related with Android Apps. This

meant is was a huge learning curve.



The finished product

team 'r' final presentation

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