patchcoat / opsandtacticsopenreference

Android Application for the Ops and Tactics RPG

Synopsis

Ops and Tactics Open Reference is an android smartphone application that acts as a reference for all Ops and Tactics rulebooks.

Motivation

This projects exists to make referencing the content within Ops and Tactics on a smartphone easier. I have tried to make it flexable enough that one can modify/delete the JSON and XML files and add new JSON and XML files to suit the needs of different systems.

Contributors

If you wish to contribute to this project make a pull request.

Ops and Tactics is written by Sweet Soul Bro !!H5XdMKmBv5G and any who wish to contribute to the system should contact him. More information can be found at www.opsandtactics.com.

License

The code is licenced under GPL 3.

Ops and Tactics is licenced under the Creative Commons. More information can be found at www.opsandtactics.com.

The JSON and XML files that contain Ops and Tactics content are subject to the licence Ops and Tactics is under, not GPL 3.

If you adapt this app to your own system, then the modifications you make to the code maintain GPL 3, but the XML and JSON files inherit the existing licence for your system.

opsandtacticsopenreference's Issues

Searching

Searching is non-functional

XML Ordered Lists

Ordered lists are absent from the XML content parser.
An ordered list looks like the following. Numbers are level 0, capital letters are level 1, and lowercase letters are level 2.

1. First item
   A. Sub Item A
   B. Sub Item B
   a. Sub Sub Item a
   b. Sub Sub Item b
   C. Sub Item C
2. Second Item
3. Third Item
   A. First of the third item
   B. Second of the third item
   C. Third of the third item

Due to the way lists work in the XML parser this will need a recursive solution. Firstly all of the list elements are loaded into an array. The elements of the array contain the content of the list, and they can contain a sub-list. When the xml list goes up a level, it starts loading that new level of elements into the sub-list of the most recently added item. Once this list is populated, it can be recursively looped through and the ordered list can be added to the view.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks currently do nothing.

General Settings

General settings are still using the default settings as a placeholder. Should include settings for bookmarks as well as any anything else that comes up that doesn't fit in Appearance or Books.

Edit:
The following need to be added to settings.

• Appearance/Themes
• Books (turns on which books are or are not available from the home screen)

App freezes when opening large xml page.

Some XML pages are very, very long and take a while to load. This can make the UI freeze when opening those pages.

The solution I see is to run the parser on a separate thread that pushes TextViews and the like to the UI thread as they are ready. This will make the page loading seem instant since the beginning will load as good as instantly and the rest will load faster than the user can scroll.