We’re live in the Android Marketplace as of about an hour ago. Whew! What an exciting release. Our development team joined the others in our Olin MobDev class, and gobbeled down burritos and chips while we did the final APK signing together.
You’ll also notice our revamped website - complete with a walkthrough of the Craigslistener [...]
Last Monday (4/27/09), we had the privilege to join several hundred other mobile entrepreneurs at Mobile Monday Boston and present to them on the development, creation, and running of the Olin Mobile Development course that we are part of. It was perhaps, the best culmination of a course we have ever been involved in, and [...]
ListViews are the view in Android that shows lists of data. You give them a layout for a row, and they handle the rest. It’s pretty nifty.
However, one idea that we had in paper prototype didn’t successfully transfer over. We thought that we’d make a status button in a listview which was tap-able. If you [...]
The back button in Android is a funny thing. By default, with no extra code, it will take the user to the last activity they were at, which is generally the last screen the user interacted with. Home to application back to home. Or application view 1 to application view 2 back to application view [...]
The Craigslistener team held a design review with the Olin Mobile Development course just over a week ago before our final coding binge. I thought I’d share the slides and ever so briefly talk about each one.
Our Project is Craigslistener. We’re building software for Android devices to allow users to be notified of things they [...]
Two weeks ago, Ducker, Jacob, and I laid out the basic architecture of Craigslistener on a white board. Since then, we’ve had meeting after meeting in team rooms (public work spaces at Olin) and revised our plans over and over. I just committed my last piece of code to SVN and our deadline to be [...]
I couldn’t imagine a student project five years ago having from the beginning a precise brand strategy, but Olin’s Mobile Application Development Course is different. Surely projects in the past have had names, but icons, and twitters, and blogs, and websites, oh my? The world is is a different place.
We started with a name - [...]
The dev team began interaction design last Thursday. In true Olin design style, the table was littered with index cards and sharpies. After having decided that the 1.0 release of Craigslistener would most likely be a general Craigslist listener, we settled on four main interactions. We looked at each interaction in turn and brainstormed 2-5 [...]