RouteRanker

March 15, 2012

• First meeting - discuss Route Ranker features:
• Unable to use GPS on the simulator on XCode.
• Displaying routes.
• Sharing routes with friends.
• Integration with Facebook.

March 19-26, 2012

• Watch iPhone lectures.
• First attempts to program simple apps using XCode.

March 29, 2012

• First meeting with TA. Set tasks for next week.
• Set up a GitHub account.
• Get to display the map.
• Set up a local server.
• Configure the Facebook API.

April 1, 2012

• GitHub account ready.

April 3, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Started designing the UI in greater detail.
• Built the main tab controller in Interface Builder, set up the home screen and the map.
• Set up on a local computer a Python RestAPI that will be responsible for saving/getting data from the database.
• Decided to use MongoDB instead of mySQL.
• Registered RouteRanker as a Facebook App and all of us as developers.

April 10, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Got the user location to show up on the map.
• Using delegates and protocols, configured button on home screen to allow user to see his position on the map in a different view.
• Built auto-naming feature that assigned the user’s route a name if he did not provide one.
• Added the ability for the user to drop a pin on the map.

April 17, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Wrote preliminary function to allow user to see the path on the map.
• Started working on the client/server side to make the connections and retrieve/store information at the server.
• Implemented Facebook login.

April 24, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• After some lackluster testing, added Kalman filter to smooth GPS data.
• Added additional code to remove outlier points and compensate for the first few points being inaccurate.
• Began work on Core Data (storing paths in the iPhone’s built-in database).
• Integrated Facebook login with the rest of the app.
• Keep track of users who have the app on the server.

May 1, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Began work on editing previous routes and displaying them in a table view.
• Set up a server on AWS, installed Python/Bottle Framework/mongoDB on it.
• Started working on being able to store the path on the server and then getting that information back.
• Implemented groups for routes.
• Filtered Facebook friends to eliminate friends without the app from the list displayed to the user.

May 8-11, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Routes able to be stored online.
• Users can share routes.
• Implemented a security system such that each user needs a hash to access the server.
• Created views to allow user to view group statistics.
• Fixed some bugs that arose out of integrating several different sources of code.
• Prepared the presentation.

May 11-14, 2012

• Tasks accomplished:
• Work on the internals files.
• Update the timeline.