WINNY IN CLASS

As we enter the final week of our Advanced Studio project, my focus has shifted towards submitting the assignment and applying any last minute refinements to the SPOTTER app. I successfully incorporated the advertisements that I had proposed in Advanced Studio 1 and also integrated Google Maps directions. An important lesson I learned was that the issues I faced while trying to redirect to Google Maps were caused by incorrect handling of destination longitude and latitude values. Through careful debugging of each line of code, I identified and resolved the issue. I was under the impression I would have to submit my project without this feature given the lack of time left, however, it was truly rewarding to accomplish it before the deadline. Additionally, I took the opportunity to enhance the app's design by fine-tuning the colours, fonts and placement, which has resulted in a neater and more professional appearance. Lastly, I cleaned up all of my lines of code and organised my file...

This week, my main focus was to organise and refine my screens to make sure there was a smooth transition between them. To enhance user experience, I brought in a navigation controller to the settings section, which provides a convenient back button for each subview. In fine detail, I scanned over all of the contraints within each UI view controller to ensure there were no significant issues.  It was during this week that I came to the realisation that I may not have enough time to implement to FIND SWELL feature. This feature is the exact same to the FIND SUN feature but instead of sun, we are searching for good waves. As a result of time management, I decided to remove the prepared view controllers and code that I had set up for starting this section. 

This week I have managed to reach a few more milestones. I focused on creating e a new page of the app which allows the user to view the search results in a map view for convenience. I decided to create this page separately from the homepage map as it needed to display extra information including the search fields at the bottom of the screen alongside a "back" button to take the user back to the list of results. (still need to implement the back button) I also attempted to have the tab bar viewed to every screen but I am finding it difficult to find out why it disappears after the SunSearchViewController.