Hello hello blog! It’s been a while. I am back on the Disco Tray team after a semester long hiatus while I was studying abroad. The first few weeks of this semester has been pretty rocky. The second week, there was a massive snow storm that made the city sit still for a few days. The third week, the flu attacked Hendrix like I’ve never seen before. Five more instances like these two and things might start looking real divine around here.

Since the first weeks were so bizarre, this week was the first time I could really sit down and get to work for Disco Tray. Coming back, I was assigned to the Faulkner Footsteps project. This is perfect for me because I was one of the original parents of this app before handing over custody to their new guardians. I almost got emotional when I saw their beautiful UI for the first time in almost a year…

In order to see my baby again, though, it took a lot of work. After all this time away from them, I thought I would just be able to run the app to see them again. It turns out not even software is immune to the sands of time. While I was away, my baby’s new guardians made some “upgrades”.

Okay I am done with the whole “this app is my baby” bit. Initially, when I tried to run the app, it was stuck on “Running Gradle task ‘assembleDebug’… “ for several minutes before it spit out an error. I can’t remember exactly what the error was, but it had something to do with my Android NDK not matching up with the project. I made the NDKs match, but then I got a different error saying that my Flutter minSDK was too low for the project. I did not want to have to mess with weird Flutter convig files, so I just decided to upgrade my Flutter. This actually did get the app to run, but I am worried that my Flutter version still does not match up with the rest of my team. I need to get this figured out before I commit any of my changes.

When I launched the app, I created an account and started to just mess around and see what goes wrong. I am happy to say that the app looks very good, and there were only a couple of minor things I noticed.

First, when you sign out and sign back in, you get stuck on a loading screen and have to hit a back arrow to get to the main page. Second, this is very nitpicky, but there is something fishy with the rating system. Right now, you can only rate the site you are closest to if you are within a certain distance. That’s fine, but this is all being handled in the map page. So, if you are a new user and you do not click on the map page, you are not able to rate a site even if you are right on top of it.

Anyway, that’s what I did this week. I hope to tackle both of the above issues this week.

Bye.