I hope I am not biting off more than I can chew, but I have this idea for the Alpine Nature Center app. The interface will look something like this (without the black guidelines):
I am planning to have static map of Lambert Park, an mini app that allows users to mark where they parked their car, a mini app to choose a trail head - complete with directions of how to get there from their current location, mini quiz on flowers and birds, a link back to alpinenaturecenter.com, and a pedometer. Phew. I need to get coding!!!
My sister Judy should be on her way back from the Holy Land, just in time to give me feedback and fetch me GPS coordinates. Stay tuned, this should be awesome :)
Got back from Spring Break this week. And it looks like I will need another vacation from all of the travel I've put in over the last several weeks. I feel like my work and my school work have piled on me so high, it will take me an eternity to feel like I am no longer behind in everything. I was wishing I was back to just studying music while I made my app this week. My app shows that music was on my mind. I made a game for identifying music and composers. I named it Famous Composers.
I used some of my favorite pieces to play and my favorite composers. I decided to use a clip of me playing one of these pieces for this blog. Then, as I previewed the clip, I cringed at the mistakes I made out of nerves, and it all came flooding back to me that studying music was super stressful! Now I am glad to be where I am.
My app needed a little tweaking as the sound component did not work on all my peers' devices. It turns out the sound component is only good for sounds up to 10 seconds long. The player component is used for longer clips. I made the switch and hope that everything is working well now. Check it out if you want to hear some awesome music. The music is all keyboards and organs except for the Mozart piece -- just because Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is favorite, and even though I love playing Mozart, I've been told I don't have "the hands" for it. It's a love/hate relationship.
On a side note, Spring Break was awesome. We toured the southeastern side of Utah. I live on the southwestern side. We hit 5 different designated nature areas. We went to Bears Ears and offered our prayers. #ProtectBearsEars It's a marvelous addition to our National Park Areas!
For anyone interested - here is a QR Code link to the FamousComposers app so you can check it out on your android device.
This week I am closer to understanding what is needed for my sister Judy's Alpine Nature Center App. We designed a tracker app where the user can drop a pin and then map the directions back to the dropped pin from another location. I can see how this could be really helpful in a hiking map. I am taking this app for a test drive, so to speak. The kids and I left today for a cross country trek to Bear Ears National Monument. We made it as far as Monument Valley tonight. Tomorrow we will hike up to several of the cliff dwellings in Bears Ears.
My hypothesis is that the tracker will not be helpful in Bears Ears. Our cellular service ended hours ago. I really feel like we are two weeks from anywhere.
It is not super accurate to say that the cell service ended. It looks like our T-Mobile family plan is piggy backing off of Cellular One right now. That pretty much means we have phone service and sms, but no data. I was able to get the app to work in the hotel room because free wifi.
I am thinking this is not going to be a problem with the parks by Alpine Utah as this is a densely populated area with very good cellular service.
Anyway, here is a link to the URL to download this latest app. Future improvement will be to have the google map app open in its own screen to maximize the size of the map.
