Android Atelier: Lunch In code review

I started an intermediate Android study group with Women Who Code Boulder/Denver called Android Atelier. Our goals are:

• Explore new techniques
• Learn from each other
• Contribute to open source

Hackathon

Our first meetup was on June 9. We brainstormed for our first project, and decided to enter a hackathon together. It was a great way to bootstrap our efforts, using the hackathon to impose a real deadline.

We worked from home after the meetup, keeping in touch on Google Hangout. The time pressure made it a bit stressful, but it was so rewarding to see the group working together and finishing the app in 3 weeks!

Here is our entry, Lunch In:

challengepost.com/software/android-atelier-lunch-in

Code review

We met again on July 14 to review what we did for the app. It was a great discussion of the techniques we used:

• Fragments
• BroadcastReceiver to detect wifi state change
• AlarmManager
• Notifications
• Custom view
• Animations
• Database (using the Cupboard library)
• SharedPreferences
• Testing

I made a screen recording of the code review. Check it out:

Source code: github.com/AndroidAtelier/lunch-in (Tag: v0.1.0)