Mobile App Project

iOS Team (Xcode)

Mr. F's grand plan: I think everyone on the team should go through the "Making Your First iOS App" and "How to Make a Simple iPhone app" tutorials. The second tutorial will actually help you set up what I think the news program will look like, with a table showing all the current stories, and clicking on them brings up a page where you can read more about the story. I'm envisioning that the bottom of the screen will be reserved for selecting the section of stories being shown (News, Sports, etc), and we'll still need to talk to the NWN to get access to their news data (as well as determining how to read data from a network location in iOS, but I'm sure that's not hard). We don't have a ton of time, so ideally you will do SOME work at home (especially if are a senior and have nothing to do for multiple days).

Android Teams A & B (Mosync)

Mr. F's grand plan: You guys will be programming in javascript and HTML 5, so you should have a smaller learning curve for getting started. I'd like to split you up into two teams - half working on a NWN app, and the other half working on a SIMPLE game (remember, this is a phone, not your computer). A puzzle game would be a good idea, something like Lights Out, Peg Solitaire. I would rather you get one functioning program that is fairly simple as opposed to a complex idea that goes nowhere. You have multiple example projects in Mosync to look at as a reference. I will be looking into how to give you guys access to the news data to display in the news program.