Week Two

    This week was our second week working as a team on our project. We focused this week on a separate assignment we are working in the same group for instead, though. Due Tuesday, March 16, our group is supposed to present a "Tech Tutorial" to the rest of our Senior Inquiry class on a chosen technology. Our group chose to present on how to access your phone's camera using an app made in Android Studio.  Originally we had chosen this particular technology since we planned on using the device's camera to take pictures of textbooks for our in-app textbook marketplace, but the marketplace as a whole has been designated a "wish list" item at this point in time.

    In fact, the marketplace is not the only item that has been moved to "wish list" status. We received feedback  for our official team project proposal this week, and our list of desired features in our app was deemed a bit too ambitious. Of course, we are first time app developers so it is likely realistic that we cannot complete all of the features we want in the time allowed. As such, we decided to move the textbook marketplace and the direct messaging features towards the back of our minds to focus on more integral features like course rating and professor rating. 

    Even though we are not sure if we will end up using the device's camera in our final product, the research we did this week definitely helped us get better acquainted with Android Studio as a whole. Many videos and online tutorials later, we had a working app that first asks for permission to use the camera and then allows the user to take a picture with it. Then, the picture that is taken is shown in an image in the app itself. Below are some screenshots of the app running on an emulator. The left screenshot shows the picture that the user took in the app itself, while the second screenshot shows the app using the camera.

      
                           

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