Pre christmas summary

Concluding the course today, we all have to review a bit, as well as present, what is done on shareTime.
Our work-group is composed of three totally different people, thats for sure. Let's not blame ourselves for what ended behind expectations, but we have to do a little review. Kudos to Jara for what he has done, he succeeded the task of migrating whole structure from glassfish server to appengine, good job really! We can rely on current state and build a really nice and useful app in the future. What is done on the project works just nice, but a scarecrow is pending in our heads, because not everything we wanted to show up is ready now. On the server side, we do not have adding new events done, which is holding two screens out of usage, even meaning they stay completely blank at the moment.
But I spent quite some time working on shareTime last week or two and I must say I came up with some thoughts and ideas here and there. For example, why not to allow the users to make a poll about when should a new activity take place - I mean, what about implementing a doodle voting for activities with undecided constraints? And what about each user could add a confirmed activity to his google calendar just automatically? That is not just for us to decide, whoever reads this blog can leave a comment below, I can assure you we will keep feedback in mind

Pavel

MVP Delirevable today

Fall of the semester is here and we are about to deliver, what's done. Since Jara did an amazing amount of work, me and Emil were trying to carry some more updates recentely. I have been coding the last two days, but unfortunately can not commit and deploy my present state to our SourceForge repository.
Questioning minimum viability of the project, I must say with updating the schedule and inviting friends to a new activity - which is what i have been working on recentely - we are there.
May it seem foolish, I hope there can be some chance of running out of time at the class today, where other teams will step up with their presentations. I cheer for them, would their work be interesting, meaning us possibly given the chance to present next week, we would manage to settle some nice updates and tweaks which are close to be done, but for some reasons, I am unable to bring them alive just right now.
I just hope our effort from the very last days will have some impact, no matter when we will be showing up the app.

Pavel

Running out of time

Hence the final presentations has to be shown on thursday morning, me and Emil met in Karlovo náměstí to focus on what's not done yet. You can find us in the E building of CTU, KN:E-2a to be concrete. At the moment we are starting our planned goal, which is to implement schedule functionality, which in detail means we want our activity sharing to be functional and to be shown to the friends, as well as in your own time schedule in our application. Lets hope we will find ourselves able to succeed.
Pavel and Emil

Our Progress

We have functional code that we will present on thursday. Jara made great effort to change server side from glassfish server to GAE. A lot of testing and progress has been done. We have server side deployed on GAE for about two weeks, it seems running very well with no complications. The difficult part was to change the database to the GAE philosophy so that it would work properly.

We also created user interface for samusng tablet. It is very simple and not so sophisticated yet but it is sufficient environment for further testing and development. It is also sufficient for our final presentation and working functionality demonstration. We will improve the interface in the future, we want that it looks much nicer with bigger icons. The good thing is that the application is connected to the gravitation sensor and it works OK.

Another difficult goal that has been achieved is communication with the server side on GAE with android client. Now the application communicates properly with the server and we have a basic functionality to demonstrate. We can log in to the application, all icons are in function and it is possible to create an event that you want to share with your friends. The next thing we need to do is just to share the event. We have not implemented it yet because we are running out of time at the busy end of the semester.

Everything is prepared including server side, database and communication and we will try to write final procedures to share the events between friend.

Most time-consuming activities

Before achieving some goals we spent a lot of time and we had to do a lot of I would say black work which looks really useless and nearly no progress can be seen. But it takes a lot of time to start up projects and projects environment on all developers machines. We tried to migrate our GAE server part to maven, we had to agree on all used technologies and finally debug written codes and start the application on Samsung tablet.