Working on Flight Tracking...

Setting up the flight tracking Activity that will allow users to check the status of their flights and vital flight and airport information. I'm looking into C2DM(Cloud to Device Messaging) for the push alerts, as I think this will be extremely useful. This is not the finalized UI, but a general idea of where I want to go with it. ...

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Traffic Tracking!

Finished the traffic incident tracking portion of the app. From this Activity, users can see various traffic incidents within a given bounding box of the their current location. When the user clicks on a traffic incident icon(shown in the second screenshot) then a nice little dialog pops up with some important details about that incident, they can also share the incident via Android's native share Intent. I still have to work out some kinks in the algorithm that determines the coordinates of the bounding box, but it's coming along! ...

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New Post..finally!

Wassup guuuyys! I haven't been blogging much lately. I've been sort of busy with a couple projects I'm juggling at the moment, as well as moving and so much other things. This is one of the projects I'm currently working on. It is basically a weather app, but that really caters to your travels. Flight tracking, traffic updates, weather updates, and a bunch of other cool features! I think it's really dope. One of the features that I like and really worked hard to get right was the location search. What I noticed that was lacking in other weather apps was the lack of a location search option for multiple locations with the same name. You can search via zip code, city name, IP Address, or latitude and longitude. Even the stock weather app that...

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