Android Application Demo for Santa Monica College

A brief slide deck outlining a simple Android application created for Santa Monica College CS86 class. The goal was to create an app specifically tailored for live music enthusiasts. Similar apps available are Archivist and MusicArchive.

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1. Android Project Walkthrough Kristian Allen Instructor: Ken Geddes Course: SMC CS86 - Winter 2011
2. - Create a fun and useful app - Self contained, but room for expansion - Scratch an itch that hasn't been met - Build on external data Design and Development Goals
3. Decision : A Live Music Jukebox - Jukebox app specifically tailored towards the needs of live music enthusiasts - Live music is presented and browsed differently than traditional album based music - Some apps are out there, but could be improved upon for a specific niche
4. Design Concept Outline Functional: - 3 pages - Lists and Detail pages - Detail page features setlist -User can click song to play Technical: - Multiple layouts - Pull data from Internet Archive - Custom JSON transformer objects - Local datastore for favorites
5. Design Mockups
6. Technical Architecture Diagram Android Device Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org JSON Data Exchange via HTTP Present Data to User Store User Preferences Local Datastore User Viewing Tool (Tablet/Phone) Data transforms and caching
7. Android Components Used - MediaPlayer - HttpClient - JSON related libraries - Intents to share data across Activities
8. Room for Improvement - Caching of data to reduce external calls to archive.org - More robust navigation - Ability to share favorites with others, increasing the social aspect - Generalize for use with all bands
9. Appendix - Tools and Resources - Google Docs - Presentation Deck - Balsamiq - Rapid design mockup tool - Example of retrieving external data - Newsreader Tutorial - Example of parsing JSON data JSON parsing list adapter tutorial