Week 9

Dear Blog,

So over the break Dan Attig has been doing some significant work on the interface, trying to mimic the navigation style and interactions of other successful applications.
There has been a significant update to the design of the main navigation bar below the map interface, and we have eliminated the curl up animation from the map interface, as it just does not degrade at all gracefully. 

We have been looking at Stanfords lecture slides again, in and out of class, looking at how to better manage our memory in the application, the reference counting seems similar to C in Linux, but a little more cumbersome here, no reference to a direct look-up of each variables current ref count means manually tracking them, which is manageable at the moment, but as the application grows to meet the scope this could become a fair bit more difficult.

I have also spent a bit of time this week working on background images, logos and icons to use in the app. The icons that overlay on the application are actually quiet difficult, we are trying to design something that is clear to read, but doesn't distract from the map and keeping with the look and feel of the app. It seems everything we come up with just doesn't work.

Anyways that is it for now until next time,
Daniel T.