The App

Here are some screenshots (taken on my phone) of the app:

The starting page loading GO screen.

The splash screen.

Login screen

The activity feed.

More of it.

And more still - this showing the social 'scoring'.

The navigation menu.

Going to creature search

Category search

Category search

More search options

The working import and take photo options for searching.

Locations of interest near you.

Prince of Wales park - from here go to see whats interesting at Prince of Wales Park

Yer photos.

You can upload more photos here.

Again, this photo section works for uploading of taking photos.

The recognised Takahe from the photo gallery. 

Succinct information on the Takahe

The nearest palce to you that you can see Takahe.

Your friends who have GO linked to their facebook - There are separate friends who are not facebook linked too.

The settings page.

And once you've finished outside-ing for the day you log out...

And head back to the starting screen.

Update on progress

I've been working mostly on windows PC's so it's been difficult to get many screenshots of the development stage but here is an update on the progress none-the-less:

Here is my site/webapp page plan:

And here are what screenshots I have taken so far in the development:

WebApp Idea

So the idea I've come up with is a sort of nature helper that will encourage you to go outside. It'll track what wildlife you see and tell you where to see wildlife you haven't seen. It'll tell you of bush walks and tracks and nature related stuff that is in your area and tell you how to get to them. It could probably have some sort of facebook like social aspect. Possibly, because it's mobile it could use AR to show you how to find specific wildlife too.

Here are some brief notes I made when I was brainstorming:

- it knows where you are
- augments reality with the camera - maybe showing you information or building plans?
- snap a QR code for quick information
- microphone search

nature app
- recognises birdsong
- recognises insect sounds
- gps creatures in that area

So some notes to give an idea on what I'm aiming for:
-The audience would be nature enthusiasts or outdoorsy people.
-The app would use the microphone to analyse sounds and tell you what the animal or critter you were hearing outdoors was.
-It would use GPS and tell you what the known wildlife in vicinity are.
-Would tie in to an account which you could share photos with others who have the app, or with your linked friends (maybe facebook or have a separate friend system).
-Could possibly use the camera to show you what a certain animal would look like in place and to scale to help you find it in the wild (this would be like AR).

Notes from Connecting video

I only took a few notes but I thought I would post them here anyway.

"something that can do its own thing in the background is great"

"...whats not wonderful, is fake analogue"

the internet of things is the where there near future lies - connecting and connected things

present data in a subtle way

Week 3 - Jquery

This week we learnt about jquery. Then we tested some and tried to get it working in our template sites.

So here I'm adding a jquery styled button.

I managed to get the calender working without having my site hosted on a server!

See! This be a screenshot from the browser.

After this I went for a jquery styled dropdown list thingamy.

These things are on separate internal jquery pages.

And here is the result for the dropdown list shown working on the internal page 2 printscreened from in the browser.

Week 2 - More refreshers

This week I continued working on my template.

Adding styling for the links.

As you can see here.

Before the hover...

And after the hover.

Practicing with some javascripting.

And here is the result of the javascript code working in the browser console.

The blue box is a styled animation of colour changing. I am also editing more javascript code...

as you can see here.

And the code works. I have 36 eggs!

Week 1 - Getting back into it

So, I started out creating a site template which served to refresh what I learnt from last year.

Setting it up with headers and an image.

Resizing the image to fit.

Adding a paragraph to the page in the form of a wee story of of complete nonsense. 

Adding a CSS ctylesheet.

Turning on some mobile viewing settings and enabling javascript.