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App Submitted

After a long process of implementing it was ready to submit our App!

It took ages to create all necessary provisioning files and finally create the binary in xcode, but it's done now.

 

 

CME: Weekly Report (October 25)

What we planned for this week

• Finish conversions
• Think about what to do with the Temperature setting
• Continue usability testing
• Draft final report
• Recipe data put into xml/database
• Clean code according code review
• If no sponsor, implement a direct link to where we found the recipe

What we actually did

• We added 70 recipes to our app, all under a Creative Commons Attribute License
• We finished the conversions (we even added the length and temperature conversions in the steps description)
• We documented the testing and what we learnt from it
• We created a nice icon for our App, made by ingredients
• Cleaned and documented code
• FINISHED THE APP!

Who did what 

• Conversions (Mandy)
• Collecting recipes (All)
• Documentation (Mandy)
• Icon (Beat)
• Cleaned and documented code (Beat)
• Description of App for App store (Chris)

Plans for the following week

• Submitting App to the store
• Holidays?

Re-evaluation of risks

Risk	Likelihood	Impact	Time lost	Action
App not accepted by Apple.	L	H	Hours	Change the things that Apple wasn't happy about.

CME: Weekly Report (October 18)

What we planned for this week

• Get Feedback from Healthy Food a.s.a.p.
• Finish conversions
• Workout a test user plan

What we actually did

• Conversions
  We implemented a second version of conversions. We are currently debugging memory leaks and allocation issues.
  
  
• Sponsor feedback
  Healthy Food has decided to build their own iPhone application and has decided that it wouldn't be in their best interest to provide us with recipes. Jo Segar is not interested at this stage. Tegel?
  
  
• Workout a test user plan
  A basic plan has been developed and user-testing has commenced.
  
  

Who did what 

• Conversions (Mandy)
• Test plan (Beat)
• Sponsors (Mandy)

Plans for the following week

• Finish conversions
• Think about what to do with the Temperature setting
• Continue usability testing
• Draft final report
• Recipe data put into xml/database
• Clean code according code review
• If no sponsor, implement a direct link to where we found the recipe

What needs to be done until Go-Live

• Find Sponsor or collect from internet
• Convert recipes from Sponsor to our xml-version
• Final documentation
• Testing

Re-evaluation of risks

Risk	Likelihood	Impact	Time lost	Action
No company wants to give us recipes.	H	H	Hours	Find recipes online, copy & paste to XML. A lot of work.

CME: Weekly Report (October 11)

What we planned for this week

• Implement the user-defined view for the measurements. Consider the settings made in the plist. Calculate the right amount according to the chosen settings. An additional feature would be to touch a row and change the units
• Add favourite button to Steps View as well
• Better quality images and have a thumbnail of each (will increase performance?). Use thumbnails with suffix "_tn"
• Add possibility to add a minus (-) in front of an ingredient to exclude this from the query
• Add copyright information to single view
• Research sponsor for our recipes
• Think about use of colours in App

What we actually did

• Conversions
  We implemented a first version of conversions. It is working but doesn't cover all cases yet. Weight and volume conversion is implemented. We changed the datatype of the unit to a string so an input '1/2' is possible. We have to work on it that e.g. '1 1/2' is working as well.
  
  
• Favourite button
  Implemented.
  
  
• Images
  All images are replaced by a PNG and we added thumbnails. It is faster now but still a bit lagging.
  
  
• Exclude option
  It is implemented.
  
  
• Sponsors
  We have to talked to 4 possible sponsors. We would like to contact 'Healthy Food' in detail to know if they're still interested. They have the most information how we would like it.
  

Who did what 

• Conversions (Mandy)
• Favourite button (Beat)
• Images (Chris)
• Exclude option (Beat)
• Contacting possible sponsors (Mandy)

Plans for the following week

• Get Feedback from Healthy Food a.s.a.p.
• Finish conversions
• Workout a test user plan

What needs to be done until Go-Live

• Find Sponsor
• Convert recipes from Sponsor to our xml-version
• Final documentation
• Testing

Re-evaluation of risks

Risk	Likelihood	Impact	Time lost	Action
Healthy food doesn't cooperate.	M	H	2 days	Contact Joe Seagar or Tegel. Tegel should be no problem.

CME: Weekly Report (September 27 + October 4)

We are on holiday, sorry.