In which a second week begins

Well, we've just had our app being designed for a week and two days now, and I'm still blown away by all that Alex can do when he's coding.


My contribution for the weekend was the icon - which presently looks like this (in various sizes):

It's been kind of fun (for me) trying to work out what we're doing for various images. We're trying to make it so as to have minimal borrowing from other sources, so all our textures and the image used for the icon of our app etc, are based off photos that I've taken and then manipulated.

As for Alex... well... we now have multiple libraries...

 

Which can be added to in a number of ways:

I'm thinking we're going to have to work out the layout of /\ this pop-up. Cancel should be down the bottom yeah?


The isbn button works as well as barcode scanning...
                               

(isbn search first, then continuous barcode scanning screen shot)

The latter is a part of the continuous barcode feature. From what we can see everyone else's app doesn't have this kind of feature. Which means once you have scanned a book you have another screen come up so you can (or rather have to) review/preview all the details of the book before selecting to scan the next item. Alex thinks this is too slow and so instead has created the continuous barcode scanning feature which has an overlay on the camera field show up for the last item scanned - in this case Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad - but you don't have to actually review it then and there. That "Incomplete Library" from the earlier screen cap is where things go if the app can't actually work out the barcode.

Lastly there's this /\ Whereby not only can you sort by author/title (yeah we're allowing that for some reason)/genre you can also view books by the series they belong to.  Meaning that when you have 9 books out of a 16+ book series it's a lot easier than having to remember what you do/don't currently own. Anyone who doesn't think a series feature is important in a library app probably doesn't read enough sci-fi or fantasy ;)




And well it maybe wasn't such a productive weekend from my side of things, and yes Alex spent the weekend working on some kettlepotblack stuff, but I'm still proud of our little "baby".