View source for Android: Parks and Recreational Facilities locator (Jose Romasanta)

parks and Recreational Facilities locator

Main page:List of parks and recreational


If item is selected
Displays location info:


* Address
* Location name
* Contact info
* List of what the location contains
* Button to call phone number
* Button to show location on the map(Google maps)
* Add to favorites 
Open data source
http://www1.toronto.ca/City_Of_Toronto/Information_Technology/Open_Data/Data_Sets/Assets/Files/locations-20110725.xml


== My hurdles in building my application ==
* getting errors when pulling xml with no values: it took me a while to understand the problem because if i placed a break point in the program asynchronous does not work.
* Understanding and implementing storage for temporary pulled data: Ended using a class bean to store data.
* Setting up Maps: Google does not make it easy to implement maps to android systems. To do so, you must complete a series of downloads, registration, keystore registration, fingerprint registration, importing Google play project, updating sdk to include Google play services, referencing Google play package into assignment project.
* Impossible to debug maps and geocoder on emulator: It is recommended to use an actual device to debug maps and geocoder. I could not afford android. needed to look for people to who has a device but everyone was busy with their own systems.
* Failed in imput SHA finger print generated in keystore which prevented the maps from loading: Took me more time
* My friend told be that I was stacking activities: I did not have knowlegde before hand. I had to edit my change screens.