April 20-24

Monday: 12:55-2:30
Tuesday: 12:55-2:30
Wednesday: 12:25-2:30
Thursday: 12:55-1:47
Friday: 12:55-2:30

      This week I worked on notifications for two hour delays and school closings in the app. I started with an animation of the icon for notifications on the home screen. I made it so that if there was an unviewed notification, the icon (a bell) would "ring" twice and an exclamation point would appear in the corner of the icon. Then, when all notifications were viewed, but there are still present notifications, the exclamation point stays but the bell does not ring. Next, I worked on adding the lunch menu to the app. I scraped the menu from the district website, stored the data in our database in HTML by day, and then printed each day in weeks of five school days. When making the lunch menu, I had to change some icons around. Previously, I had made the icon for the clubs a club sandwich. However, now that lunch menus are a part of the app, it would make a lot more sense to have the lunches be represented by a sandwich. So, I switched out those images and made a new image for the clubs. While I was at it, I made an icon for the map that my colleague has been working on. Then, I worked on fitting the icon into the home screen along with the existing icons. The bell is the 7th icon to be added to the home screen and since I laid the screen out in two columns, the bell would not fit well into the layout. So, I put it in the top right corner of the home screen and formatted. This brings me very near to the completion of the app. I have to complete the notifications section, but after that, the only thing left to do is add the map and test. That is, unless we want to spend more time making it more aesthetically pleasing. I may eventually start doing that, however since it is not possible to test on a phone in school, it will be hard to do any of that during my internship period.