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Taedium app for Android

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taedium-android's Introduction

Taedium is a service to break the cycle of boredom amongst friends ("I don't know what do you want to do?"). Taedium recommends all kinds of different activities based on any topics you can imagine. Because the database is populated by the users, there is no limit to the variety of recommendations you might get. Recommendations can be filtered, liked/disliked and are recommended based on your personal tastes.

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The Android app is now available in the Android Market so please download and install it there.

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taedium-android's Issues

Occasional crash on load

Stack trace from Android developer console:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{me.taedium.android/me.taedium.android.view.ViewRecommendation}: android.support.v4.app.Fragment$InstantiationException: Unable to instantiate fragment me.taedium.android.view.RecommendationAdapter$RecFragment: make sure class name exists, is public, and has an empty constructor that is public
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: android.support.v4.app.Fragment$InstantiationException: Unable to instantiate fragment me.taedium.android.view.RecommendationAdapter$RecFragment: make sure class name exists, is public, and has an empty constructor that is public
at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.instantiate(Fragment.java:388)
at android.support.v4.app.FragmentState.instantiate(Fragment.java:96)
at android.support.v4.app.FragmentManagerImpl.restoreAllState(FragmentManager.java:1662)
at android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity.onCreate(FragmentActivity.java:192)
at me.taedium.android.view.ViewRecommendation.onCreate(ViewRecommendation.java:45)
at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
... 11 more
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: me.taedium.android.view.RecommendationAdapter$RecFragment
at java.lang.Class.newInstanceImpl(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:1409)
at android.support.v4.app.Fragment.instantiate(Fragment.java:377)
... 17 more

Sanitize newlines when using recommend api

Possibly use UrlQuerySanitizer()

Use new likes API

I noticed that we aren't getting likes/dislikes when we load a list of activities. I looked into it and the reason is that the API has changed so that we must request likes/dislikes separately and they don't come back automatically when we just request a bunch of activities for a user.

I talked to Shane and the reason for this is that it difficult to change what comes back in the activity object based on the user. This might change in the future, but we agreed that for now we fix bugs and no new features so we should fix this.

Highlighting the filter button on main page

If you hold and then drag off of the filters on the main page, the black background shows around the corners. Not sure why.

Login credentials need to be URL escaped

Putting a space crashes the app.

Detect duplicates when adding activities

From a user study done with my family:
Brother added "Go running" and we didn't show anything saying that similar activities exist. We should do something to warn the user of potential duplicates on the first screen when the user enters the title or something.

Activities with a cost show up even when we filter on cost

Disabled buttons look active

By default disabled buttons are a light grey and look like they can be clicked. We should see if we can change that.

AddTags activity should display all currently selected tags

At the moment, manual tags are not visible. We should probably also provide a way to remove manual tags.

Make it so you don't need to be logged in to add activities

Background fade when opening a dialog feels choppy

Implement activity buffer/cache

I want to let users set an activity buffer (cache size) which we will immediately fill with activities. When an activity is viewed it gets removed from the buffer (when there are 10 empty spaces we re-fill it).

This way:
a) The user doesn't need network connectivity
b) The user never has to wait for the next set of activities to load

This will be slightly tricky since we will need to think about filtering and stuff like that. Maybe the buffer could be used as a backup in case there is no internet connection.

I'm going to say this will likely not be targeted for the demo, but it's something I'd like to do long term.

Logout messes up activity stack

Replace RecommendationGallery with ViewPager

We are using a somewhat hacky solution to get our horizontal scrolling the way we want it. Google recently released a ViewPager widget that looks like it does exactly what we want. We should use this instead.

Buttons are hard to click in ViewRecommendation activity

This is caused by a scrollview being inside our custom gallery widget. It may be possible to use Android's new ViewPager widget: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/08/horizontal-view-swiping-with-viewpager.html

Text spacing and button cutoff for help dialogs

Help dialogs look good but I noticed two things (at least on my device):

Sometimes there seems to be an extra space insert in front of the beginning of some of the first lines of each paragraph in the dialogs.
The OK button gets cutoff a bit on some of them (noticeably on the "People and Age" page but perhaps others as well, didn't check them all).

I'd look into these myself right now...but I'm too tired and figured since you (ahal) implemented it, you'd have an easier time fixing this.

Add help dialogs to the add activity wizard

From a user study done with my family:
The common user (including my two siblings) didn't really understand what tags were or why they were there. We have a whole page, we should add a small description with text along the lines of "Tags help us give you better recommendations. For example, if you add the activity "Play Super Mario Bros" you would tag this with "video games"."

Need to rework how users add tags

From a user study done with my family:
User tried adding a tag and just clicked "done". Tag didn't show up and she was confused as to why. Clicking "Add" followed by "Done" is not intuitive. I don't have a better solution in mind yet but I feel like we need to address this with a rework of how this page functions.

Don't fail when there is no network

Currently the app will crash or do other undefined behaviour when network calls fail. We should have a "No internet detected" activity whenever there isn't a network connection. This should be implemented in caller.java

Button for registering new user too small

In the login dialog, the button for adding a new user is hard to click.

Button on add activity map view should fill width

The default button style bakes some padding into the actual image.. this makes certain buttons such as the "Use specified location" button in the add activity map view look ugly. We should spin our own button style without padding (or make it look better in general while we're at it).

Show tags as they are being added when adding an activity

Filter info is reset upon re-opening app

For example if I set "Environment" to "Indoor" the filter bar will say "Indoor" on the right side. However if I restart the app it will no longer say "Indoor" even though the Indoor check box is still checked.

Map doesn't display when I load an activity with a location

At least on my Samsung Galaxy S2, I just get a blank map with a pin on it.

Add a home button in the menu

With the recent addition of the profile pages, it is possible to get buried very deep in the activity stack and have to hit the back button many times to get back to the main page. We should have a "Home" button in the menu to unravel the activity stack and pull you back to the main page.

Show some indication that user is logged in

If a user logs in, we should make it obvious somehow that they are logged in. The use case for this is that I was scrolling through activities (thinking that I was logged in) and wondered why my likes/dislikes weren't showing up. Turns out I wasn't logged in. I'm not sure exactly how/where to show this, but I think it might be a good idea to somehow make it more obvious.

Exception when trying to register in app

Click register and exception occurs.

Button backgrounds in Add Activity Wizard occasionally go clear

Header fixes

The titles in the UI for profile pages look like buttons (as per our past convention with the "Add Activity" button). We should move these titles out of the header by adding another bar below it. This will take some experimentation.
We broke the header when adding these titles to it. On Shane's phone (phones with small screens) the taedium text in the header overlaps the lightbulb. This is an easy fix, but these two things should be fixed at the same time.
We should consider making the header "Add Activity" button match the look and feel of the Like/Dislike/Flag buttons in the footer that we have on the ViewRecommendations page.

Don't fail when there is no network

Show who contributed the activity in the app

Dialogs stretch to full width of screen in landscape view

To reproduce open a dialog (most offensive looking one is the login dialog) and flip the screen to landscape mode. I'm not sure exactly how to make this look its best, however I'm thinking that just by not stretching the dialog to the full width of the screen in landscape mode will help a lot.

Stop showing GPS coordinates in UI

Logging in from add activity wizard doesn't take effect on activity add

Go through the Add Activity wizard and login halfway through. When you actually submit the activity, the submitter isn't passed along to the server so the user doesn't get credit for the activity.

Hook the add map activity search box into Google maps service

At the moment it just interprets input as an address and tries to spit out a lat/long. This means if you search something like "Younge and Dundas" it will have no idea what to do. Instead we should make a call to the Maps API to get the same results as if they typed into Google maps. Failing this we should remove this feature and just allow users to select a city.

Implement profile page

Should have a page to view profile information, change password, etc.

Implement 'todo activity' list

Users should be able to save activities that they want to do for later and be able to view these activities on their profile page

Header on Register page has unnecessary line

This line is used on other pages to denote a button. Apparently this is the only page in the UI where we don't show a button there, so we should remove this line or add a button. Really there is no reason that the "Add Activity" button can't be displayed there since you no longer are required to be a registered user in order to submit an activity. Perhaps that is the best fix.