MakeList is a simple Android TODO list app.
Additionally, you can send and receive TODOs via text messages from your contacts!
Submitted by: Akshay Khole
Time spent: 43.5 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- User can successfully add and remove items from the todo list
- User can tap a todo item in the list and bring up an edit screen for the todo item and then have any changes to the text reflected in the todo list.
- User can persist todo items and retrieve them properly on app restart
The following optional features are implemented:
- Persist the todo items into Realm instead of a text file
- Improve style of the todo items in the list using a custom adapter
- Add support for completion due dates for todo items (and display within listview item)
- Use a DialogFragment instead of new Activity for editing items
- Add support for selecting the priority of each todo item (and display in listview item)
- Tweak the style improving the UI / UX, play with colors, images or backgrounds
The following additional features are implemented:
- You can receive TODOs via text messages from your friends who want to remind you to do stuff!
- UI for sending TODOs from within the App
- Background service to monitor SMSes even when app is closed
- App icons and UI enhancements to forms
- Priority container colored according to its value
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
The SMS views show garbled/serialized text messages. These views are intended to demonstrate that the app is capable of sending, receiving and interpreting SMS messages. When this app goes to production, I will probably delete these messages from the inbox once they are parsed and saved into MakeList's database but that is out of scope for purposes of this demo IMHO.
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- Finding right ways for message passing between different components of the app
- Refreshing UI on receiving TODO from a text message
- Settling on the perfect color palette and color combinations
- Mark TODO as complete and 'strike-through' it's text
- Codepath guides and video tutorials
- Several articles on the Internet, Stackoverflow, Android guides, etc.
Copyright 2016 Akshay Khole
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