Application

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The main focus of this week was to build an application interface. I built an interface for my final project.

My application has a primary menu that separates into distinct “apps”. Some of the apps have pretty self-descriptive names such as “Jokes”, “Cat Images”, while some are a bit more abstract. For example “Time” just displays the current time and “Tarot” draws a random tarot card and explains it for you.

My application follows the following flowchart logic for navigation:

After an app is used, the user is returned back to the main menu.

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For the cat images app, I used 2 distinct APIS from which I extract the fact and the image separately and then I add them together. I requery the facts until I find a short one that can properly fit on the screen.

For the Tarot card reading, I had to download the images and pre-process them on my side so that they are the appropriate side. I uploaded them to my github as a fork so that I may host them easily.

For Tetris, I simply adapted my code from the embedded programming week.

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Possible improvements Link to heading

The screen management is greatly unoptimized and it would be great to improve it. I decided to not speed much time on this in order to get a working prototype. Another grievance is that I currently lack the ability to connect to arbitrary wifi networks and can only connect to my hotspot.

I could also try to use more complex APIs such as receiving emails, however sending them might prove difficult due to the limited input interface.

I added the code to this part of the project under my final project tracker page as I did some small modifications and I also did not want to upload it twice.