Continuing UI Improvements

Written by: Quincy Williams

This week, I continued to work on improving the User Interface and fixing a few bugs that were presented during our testing for build review. The main thing that I worked on for UI improvement was adding and editing exercises and fixing some issues with the initial design, as it was not the cleanest look.

I was able to update the xml for the adding and editing functions to give a cleaner look of the activities but still provide some visual cues to the user on what can be clicked on and what is just plain text. The views were initially updated to have a card for every field but we decided that it made the design a little off putting and went with generalizing the fields into groups for a cleaner look.

UI Update for adding exercises

Now adding and editing exercises will have this new cleaner UI. The xml is updated to have the cards views hold more fields and now they have headers and the fields that are able to be clicked on are underlined, via edits to the strings.xml file, that will provide a dialog box that the users can use to enter their information.

With our final week of production coming up with the application, we are going to continue to clean up the application and throw in tiny features that we feel could make the final build without presenting too many issues at the last minute. Then we will get our presentation together for our post mortem to present our final product. More on this next week!