Log Hours Android App
“What do you do when you see a spaceman? Park your car, man.”
https://github.com/jamiewannenburg/LogHours
I will be doing some freelance work in the near future. My challenge is to get my rate right and to know how many hours I would spend on a project.
Like I mentioned in the previous post; I HATE repeating myself. I am not sure how DRY my code is, but to me it is a born-in life principle. Also I really enjoy working, particularly on something new. So a when my mother asked me to keep track of the hours I worked for her I wrote an android app.
It is a very simple idea. (As apps should be) You press a start and stop button . The app records the times and uploads it to a Google Drive spread-sheet. I do all my admin in drive these days, since I tend to forget tedious things and like to be able to get to it whenever I remember something or need to access it. I especially forget things like time, when I am doing nice work. So I figured I would expand the app a bit to use as my check in card, and upload it for anyone with the similar problems.
Obviously I learned how to make an android app. Also this was my first experience with java. The last couple of days I have been adding SQLite functionality. I am also learning how to work with an IDE and building GUI’s. While doing this I realised that I need to learn about (graphical) design. So that will probably be my next big undertaking. (While still doing maths first and foremost) As a side note, I disdain mechanical engineering design, since it is tedious and boring, so we’ll see how it goes.
The app works fine on my Galaxy S III running Android 4.2. I would appreciate it if someone try it on another phone and/or android version and let me know what you think.
-So it goes.