ToW

WebView app of the Thoughts of Worship website, which can be found here: https://thoughtsofworship.weebly.com/ Note This is the second iteration of the app, as I lost the files to the first one (a reason for me putting this one on GitHub)

To run it, there's two options

Option 1

• Use one of the APKs in the Release tab
• Load it onto an android device with at least Android Oreo (8.0)

Option 2

• Download the source code and open the solution in Visual Studios
• If you have all the proper libraries installed (Xamarin) then hook up a device for deployment or use an emulator
• F5 should build it and deploy it to the device
• If there are any issues let me know.
  • I'm new to using GitHub for my own repositories, so I'm a little unsure to how well the pushing and cloning works

Known Issues (It's still a work in progress)

• It loads pretty slowly (in my opinion), which makes sense since I'm loading several webpages on bootup
  • I'll work on better way of doing this
• Links open to the devices browser rather then in the app
  • Not too sure as to why yet, but I'll see what I can find

Planned Features

1. Better back button support
2. An actual settings view
3. A developed about page
4. A working bug reporting view
   • We'll see how far I get with this one. I've never done cloud based stuff, so that learning curve is going to be slow)
5. Maybe a refresh button or a refresh gesture
   • i.e swiping down hard or while at the top of the webpage will refresh
6. An app icon
   • Like I said, I lost the files to my original, so I have to remake it.
     • Luckily I still have the original installed on my phone, so I've been using that as the template
7. Possibly Notifications
   • I'd have to figure out how to check if a new blog has been posted
8. Going to webparsing instead of webviews
   • That'll take a while to figure out (I wonder if Weebly has an API...)
9. A boot animation that actually waits till the app is loaded
   • I couldn't figure it out on the original, but I've got a few ideas
10. Smaller app size
    • I have no idea why it's so big
      • 53 MBs just for some webviews
        • My guess is that all the app icon sizes that all get installed in the Ad-Hoc APK
        • That or it has something to do with the Xamarin libraries
11. Maybe move from Xamarin to C++
    • Actually having it built on C++ would be ideal

Built Using

• Visual Studios 2019
  • And the Mobile Development with .NET workload

Acknowledgments

Xamarin made the learning process a whole lot easier