It has been three months since I released Critters to the Android Market. Since that time, I have come across a number of serious market problems that Google needs to address: Inability to respond to user comments and ratings. This month, Critters received its first one star rating. This came as quite a shock as all [...]
I have created a Critters FAQ to help users find answers to common usage questions. The FAQ is available here
I have released an update to Critters (alpha) on the Android Market. This is a bug fix release and does not include any new features. Changes for version 0.2.0: Enhanced the form validation dialog with a more intuitive message. Some users were having problems saving their owner information and the validation dialog was not as [...]
I accidentally made Critters visible to all countries on the Android Market. The current alpha release supports U.S. and Canadian English only. To prevent any further confusion for international users, I have temporarily restricted availability to just the U.S. and Canada. Critters is designed to support locale specific formatting for dates, postal codes and phone [...]
It has been a long time in the making and now the first alpha of Critters is available on the Android Market! Final Features: Multiple Pets E-mail Medical Records Locate Veterinarians Owner Details Pet Details Pet Insurance Veterinarians Vaccinations Medications Medical Conditions Weight History Feeding Schedules E-mailing of medical records with an attached photo is [...]
Recently I needed to add a date picker dialog to a form I was designing. It was pretty straight forward, an EditText with an adjacent button to trigger a DatePickerDialog to quickly select a date. The following is an example from my project. I create a managed date picker dialog that is set to the [...]
Critters has been updated and includes the following new functionality and enhancements: New – Pet list with thumbnail photos New – Pet list filtering New – Veterinarian search via Google Maps application New – Save custom veterinarian search terms New – User stories added to unit tests Enhancement – Owner list thumbnail photos Enhancement – [...]
The first source code drop for Critters is available for download. The application is feature complete for the management of pet owners. Unit and functional tests have been completed and included in this release. Don’t laugh too hard while you are reviewing the source. This is the first project I have done in Android and [...]
It has been hard to find the time, but I finally made a bit of progress on Critters. Pet owner management is almost complete and includes the following functionality: Create, edit and delete owners Attach a photo of an owner to their personal record Place a call from the owner’s contact list Send an e-mail [...]
This month I was researching ways to implement data access for my Android project. I found an interesting tutorial posted by Java Padawan available here. The author presents what is a “sort-of” ActiveRecord data model for Android. I really liked the idea and implemented my own version for use in my project. Today’s article covers [...]