Spring 2014 Weekly Tasks

1. Major Features

• Minimap (Alvaro)
• User-defined bookmarks (Alvaro)
• Marker tool (Daniel)
• Search (Eddie)
• Complete layer selection UI (Eddie)
  • Use ExpandableListView for layer selection.
  • Reorder selected layers using drag & drop.
  • Edit the properties of a selected layer, e.g. alpha.
• 3D Map
• Additional Tools, e.g. Elevation, Hazard, Slope, Lighting ...

2. Minor Features and Improvements

• Use background Loader to update config/bookmark/layer/tile data.
• Improve the speed of the initial loading of the layer data.
• Improve the responsiveness of MapActivity when the user comes back from another Activity.
• Show map legends on colored maps.
• Allow change of tile cache size in Settings.
• Improve the user-friendliness of the marker tool, e.g. "draw on map" (see the ArcGIS sample Draw Graphic Elements), or add indicators when a marker is created (e.g. show the start point after the first touch for a line marker).
• Full screen mode.
• Help. Maybe an HTML document displayed in a WebView.
• Other minor things that come up during beta testing.

3. Other

• Project documentation
• Final presentation and poster

Week 1

• Minimap and user-defined bookmarks (Alvaro)
• Marker tool (Daniel)
• Layer selection UI and search (Eddie)

Week 2

• Alvaro: minimap, then user-defined bookmarks.
• Daniel: complete current marker types, add a circle marker type (approximated by a polygon), then work on improving the user-friendliness of the marker tool.
• Eddie: complete the layer selection UI, then search.

Week 3

• Daniel: complete the marker tool with all marker types (point, line, rectangle, circle, polyline, polygon, and free-hand) and the proper ways to create different types of markers.
• Alvaro:
  • Finish up minimap: fix the bugs; add the cross-hair with coordinates at the center.
  • Work on user-defined bookmarks
• Eddie:
  • Finish up layer UI: tablet layout; better animation of layer re-ordering; show layer description and metadata.
  • Work on the search tool.