Development Blog #3: Making Progress

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With week 5 over and done with, we wanted to share with you the progress that we have made thus far. While seemingly small, the number of obstacles we had to overcome meant we have made some substantial progress in getting closer to the finished product.

We started off by getting our app to look as close as we can to its final finished form. Our vision uses tabbed fragments to view each of the different pages of our app so that was the first thing we have implemented. Next we had implemented the core feature of our app being the map display powered by Google Maps API. The final major addition we had made was to include infrastructure for adding new pin markers to our map for when we get to the complete main feature of adding new locations. We also have added Firebase framework, but have not utilized it as of yet.

While we may not have gotten full implementation of the core functionality, by completing these pre-requisites for it, we are another step closer. Below you can see the current progress of the PicSpot app and all of the features mentioned above.



In the next week or so we plan on adding the remaining core functionality pieces as well as getting the sign-on features working.

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