Android CodeMash app

[jmaag]

For any Android phone users attending CodeMash, I've published a free
app called CodeMash Schedule to the Android Marketplace. It's my
first attempt at an Android app so I'd appreciate any feedback or
better ways of doing things.

I'm using the published REST data from the CodeMash site. I've found
a few problems with the data.
- The "Convention over Configuration Applied to .Net" and "Five Ways
to Cure the Java Blues with JRuby" sessions are listed in the REST
data with a date and time of "0001-01-01T00:00:00".
- Various session abstracts have HTML tags in the raw text.

As a result, I show an extra tab for the phantom 0001-01-01 day.

The beauty of having the schedule published in the REST format (which
was also something new to me) is that the app should work for the
future years as long as they keep publishing it the same. Thanks
CodeMash organizers!

I enjoyed creating this app and plan on continuing to improve it when
I have time.

John J. Maag

[Tim Reynolds]

Cool. Tested it on my G1 running Cyanogen's latest rom. I started the app in landscape mode, after a bit it loaded. However, when I switched to portrait mode the app didn't come back and required a force-close. Keep up the good work!

Which android phone do you have btw?

Tim

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[Michael Letterle]

I was able to flip between portrait and landscape, though the app did take a bit to "come back"...

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[Tim Reynolds]

To be fair, with the latest Cyanogen my G1 has been particularly sluggish. It gave me the "app not responding" error dialog. It may have come back eventually.

Tim

[Jason Follas]

No problems on the Moto Droid. :-)

[Roger Heim]

OK on a Samsung Moment. Are you going to make the source available?

I've just started playing with the Android SDK and I like it a lot.
How about setting an Open Spaces type meeting for people interested in
Android dev?
Roger

[Gayle]

Thanks for doing this, John!

I like the 3 tabs at the top. But on the Droid Eris, the 1st tab
shows the date as 0001-01-01, and all the times listed are 00:00:00.
The 2nd and 3rd tab are 2010-01-14 and 2010-01-15, respectively, so
they are fine, and all the times listed are non-zero. (See http://twitpic.com/wngez
to see what the 0001-01-01 page looks like. There's 4 items listed on
it, and not sure whether those are the 4 correct items, or not.)

When I click through for the description of various sessions, some of
the markup, specifically <br> and &quot; show up literally as that,
not rendered as a line break or quote. Not that big a deal, I get the
idea and it's so convenient to have the descriptions right there like
that.

I had no problems switching between portrait and landscape.

The only other comment I have (and this is purely personal preference)
is I'd rather see the afternoon times as 02:00 PM rather than 14:00,
or at least have an option to switch. My brain doesn't deal with
converting military very well. But that's probably just me :) Not a
big deal.

Thanks again,
Gayle Craig

[Larry Siden]

Could we also get the schedule into Google Calendar?

Larry Siden
http://umich.edu/~lsiden
734-926-9614
skype: lsiden

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Gayle <gayl...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thanks for doing this, John!

I like the 3 tabs at the top.  But on the Droid Eris, the 1st tab
shows the date as 0001-01-01, and all the times listed are 00:00:00.
The 2nd and 3rd tab are 2010-01-14 and 2010-01-15, respectively, so
they are fine, and all the times listed are non-zero. (See http://twitpic.com/wngez
to see what the 0001-01-01 page looks like. There's 4 items listed on
it, and not sure whether those are the 4 correct items, or not.)

When I click through for the description of various sessions, some of

the markup, specifically <br> and " show up literally as that,

not rendered as a line break or quote.  Not that big a deal, I get the
idea and it's so convenient to have the descriptions right there like
that.

I had no problems switching between portrait and landscape.

The only other comment I have (and this is purely personal preference)
is I'd rather see the afternoon times as 02:00 PM rather than 14:00,
or at least have an option to switch.  My brain doesn't deal with
converting military very well.  But that's probably just me :)  Not a
big deal.

Thanks again,
Gayle Craig

[Phil Hamlin]

I put the whole schedule into a google calendar a while back -- for those interested, here it is:
http://bit.ly/6wnokk

Enjoy,
Phil

[Larry Siden]

Thanks.  Is there a link to it in the Codemash site?

Larry Siden
http://umich.edu/~lsiden
734-926-9614
skype: lsiden

[Phil Hamlin]

I don't believe there's a link to it there. Probably a good idea to have one added though, eh?

On Jan 4, 2010 12:30 PM, "Larry Siden" <lsi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks.  Is there a link to it in the Codemash site?

Larry Siden http://umich.edu/~lsiden 734-926-9614 skype: lsiden

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Phil Hamlin <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I put the whole sched...

[Tim Reynolds]

Just updated Cyanogen to 4.2.12.2 (released today) and turned off Wifi (which was slowing things down a bit) and it rotates fine for me. A little slow, but no hanging.
:)

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[jmaag]

Sorry for not getting back sooner, I was indisposed yesterday and I
need to switch out of digest mode so I see these sooner.

Tim - I've got the Motorola Droid. If I understand the way the event
cycle works, I think when you switch between portrait and landscape or
vice versa, it effectively suspends and then reactivates the app. So
I think the way I have it, it's basically starting from scratch and
querying the REST data again. I know there's a better way to handle
that, so I'll have to look into it. I don't see it happen on mine,
but it might be that I've got a fast connection where I'm at?

Gayle - The phantom date and HTML tags are coming from the REST data
that I'm reading. Check out www.codemash.org/rest/sessions in a
browser that formats XML and you can see the date and tag issues. I'm
hoping those issues will be corrected at some point by the CodeMash
team, who I've been meaning to email about them. I like the idea for
viewing the times. It'll give me a chance to add a menu and figure
out saving preferences. I'll add it to my list.

Roger - I've yet to hit an OpenSpace session, but I'd be interested if
it doesn't conflict with one of the regular sessions that I'm really
interested in. I'd like to blog about my experience creating it and
release the source that way. Of course, it's usually funner tinkering
with the code than writing about it. At some point, I'll probably
just zip it up and make it available, or it might be fun to throw it
up on google-code.

I'll try to keep a list of known issues available here (http://
www.floydwing.com/musings/android-apps/). I don't know how much time
I'll have between now and next Wednesday but I'll see what I can do.

John

[Mike Kvintus]

John,

I'm just getting started with Android dev and found the Android developer pages has a page that defines how to do the orientation switching without re-querying all the data at http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/faster-screen-orientation-change.html

Mike

[jmaag]

Mike,
Thanks a ton! That looks like exactly what I need.
John

[Bill Heitzeg]

Phil, nice work on the Google Calendar.  I really appreciate this and I imagine a lot of others do as well!

Bill Heitzeg

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[Larry Siden]

ditto! :)

Larry Siden
http://umich.edu/~lsiden
734-926-9614
skype: lsiden

[Phil Hamlin]

great, no problem, glad it'll be useful to you! it's admittedly not as sexy as the iphone or android apps being published, but it does come in handy with my droid's  google calendar.  I'm looking forward to having all of them available next week.  Really getting excited about CodeMash 2010!  Hope to see / meet everyone next week.

Phil

On Jan 5, 2010 10:49 PM, "Larry Siden" <lsi...@gmail.com> wrote:

ditto! :)

Larry Siden http://umich.edu/~lsiden 734-926-9614 skype: lsiden

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Bill Heitzeg <bill.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[jmaag]

Uploaded multiple versions tonight, latest v2010.1.3.

Filtered the phantom day and html tags.
Fixed the orientation change slowness.
Fixed the session detail scrolling issue.

Last thing I need to figure out before new enhancements is a loading
message on initial startup.

[Phil Hamlin]

awesome, switching portrait & landscape is fantastic on my droid now with todays updates!

[kromozom]

@jmaag I am using it on HTC Magic and it is running without problem at
all thanks for the app, but I prefer the google calendar way.

@Roger I am also interested in Android development, I am definitely in
if there will be a custom meeting for Android developers.
(Please let it be after the conference sessions.)

[Phil Hamlin]

Count me in as interested in android development...

On Jan 6, 2010 6:10 AM, "kromozom" <saco...@gmail.com> wrote:

@jmaag I am using it on HTC Magic and it is running without problem at
all thanks for the app, but I prefer the google calendar way.

@Roger I am also interested in Android development, I am definitely in
if there will be a custom meeting for Android developers.
(Please let it be after the conference sessions.)

On Jan 4, 11:25 am, Roger Heim <roger.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK on a Samsung Moment. Are you goi...

[Mike Kvintus]

Count me in for android development too!

[Roger Heim]

Just upgraded on the Samsung Moment. Orientation switch is now almost
instantaneous. Very nice!

A little constructive criticism: When you touch a session to pull up
the details, the display could be, well, a little 'sexier'. It's kind
of plain looking.

[Gayle]

Just got the updated version. Looks great to me, John!

And I'm definitely +1 on being interested in Android development if
there's an Open Space or other get together about it at CodeMash, too.

Gayle

[Peter Smith]

So I see THREE apps on the Market now (in my 1.6 ADP machine):

 CodeMash Schedule by our initial poster,  jmagg,
   - pretty tabs
   - current data fetched from REST (cached? I haven't looked)
   - updating the code as we QQ and blink :)

 CodeMash Sessions 2010 by Mark Haskamp,
   - no pretty tabs, but grouped by time and day, tree like
   - written under Appcelerator Titanium (http://www.appcelerator.com/) (so perhaps there's an iPhone version too?)
   - source on github
   - Actually lets you PICK one per timeslot, and remember your picks...unless you exit the app.

MobiMash by dhibbitss
   - Just popped up today as I was composing this.
   - Still trying to start download after 30 minutes (yeah, I'm on WiFi right now)
   - http://www.MobiMash.org - looks slick, but, still waiting to start download.


Now, yes, these are both nice fetches of information, but so is the Google Calendar. :) I at LEAST want to pick which session I want to go to, in a given time period, and have that BE THERE FOR ME when I open the app up next week at 9am on Thursday! Is there a reason nobody's even mentioned this idea? I'd love to see the first two apps combined: Pretty date tabs, take me down to pretty Time tabs, take me to my selected event (if any) and a touch to open up the rest of the list, and a touch to open up the information about that list item. And a quick little file that's keeping track of my selections, that gets loaded when I start up the app. Guess I'll work on the Titanium one, though it'll be missing the pretty tabs.

Oh, yes, and a 'meToo' for an AOS open space. I thought there was an Android session or two in the first list I read; can't find any in these apps. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough...

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[Jonathan Penn]

Peter, my iPhone webkit app does what you want if you wan to try it. Corey Hanes said it works fine on he droid so it may work on other android phones too.

You can browse the sessions and mark the ones you are interested in. And it will show the upcoming session timeslot.

http://icodemashschedule.heroku.com

It's neat to see all these apps and their different interpretations of the session data. I might just pop in to the open space to watch the android development if you'll permit an iPhone guy. :)

Sent from my iPhone

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