Personal Log: Sean Doherty

Week of Sept 7: First group meeting, introductions, role assignments, abstract ideas regarding ADA App. Created GitHub account and joined ADAUSC repository.

Week of Sept 14: Group meeting which involved the creation of a question log for the first client meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Sept 17 and some discussion on finalizing Milestone 2. Also did some brainstorming of the method for creating our rough design. Created Persona #2 and read through https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html?hl=p.

Week of Sept 21: Met with the client at the scheduled time and discussed key ideas revolving the application. Created rough designs at our group meeting and went through the key features that will be a part of the finished product.

Week of Sept 28: At our group meeting, we discussed our near future steps in the project. Also, we collaberated to create our detailed design and posted the designs to the wiki.

Week of Oct 5: Read up on basics of github as well as installed windows clients to my workstations. Synced project to a local repo.

Week of Oct 12: Tweaks to detailed designs. Discussed basics about performance and storage for our project at a very abstract level.

Week of Oct 19: Met with group to set up basic architecture and flow of our program. Messed with android development more.

Week of Oct 26: Created layouts for main pages. Created initial idea for some class and view models.

Week of Nov 3: Messing with current state of app to come up with good ideas for storage and serialization. Current version is starting to look like more than just a hello world.

Week of Nov 10: More coding. Lots of data binding set up within app.

Week of Nov 17: More coding to app. New versions of serialized data being used.

Week of Nov 24: Created metadata and all prototype data is in app.

Week of Dec 1: More coding. Prepared demo for Dr. Vidal as well as class presentation.

Week of Jan 21: Discussed agenda for the new semester and what the main features are that still need implementation.

Week of Jan 28: Preparing for meeting with client, beginning the restructuring of our serialized data to include a fuller document and to include pictures/diagrams that are relevant from the document.

Week of Feb 4: Wrote external program to download all relevant diagrams from official ADA Standards document. Stored locally in assets subdirectory within app.

Week of Feb 11: Met with Able SC administration, discussed the present state of app and future plans. Added external applications to directory within git repo.

Week of Feb 18: Preparing for beta release. External program written to download/store all .gif diagrams from the html version of the ADA Accessible Design standards. Added all external programs to repo.

Week of Feb 25: Preparing for beta release. Linker text file written to point each .gif diagram to its corresponding section. Favorites further implemented.

Week of March 4: Spring Break.

Week of March 11: Discussing restructuring of app start up: stay as is or parse html doc on start up, form section instances and build keyword index simultaneously for search implementation OR just form a static index metadata file outside of the program and add to assets for read in on start up. Options being weighed.

Week of March 18: Zoom for picture diagrams.

Week of March 25: Favorites bugs fixed. Section ordering for favorites.

Week of April 1: Begin implementing search feature. Building index of <section, wordlist> pairs.