Monday, 25 May 2015

Today I got to work a lot on my app and made quite a significant progress. Progress was not in terms of progress with my app. Instead, progress was in terms of exploring new techniques and available options on this online software. I tried various things and implemented them on my app. One feature that I love about this software is the quick preview area. On the side of the working space, there is phone which shows how our app will look on a phone. So whatever changes we make, will appear on the quick preview phone. This is very useful because I can immediately know how the new changes that I made, will look and if it is suitable or not. However, the software is extremely difficult to use as the directions are not very straightforward and can easily mislead one. 

But, I am learning a lot of new things and have tried changing my app into various formats. I made the introduction page today. One of the doubts that I need to clear in the course of the day is how I am supposed to add information on the page. Basically, once I add the page, I realized that there is not designated area which says "text" or "information here". I have to further research on this or ask my brother for help.  

Another major challenge that I faced today was that I am unable to figure out how to insert my logo on the app. I tried various things, but the image always somehow ends up being larger than the limit. I tried reducing it online, but all my attempts failed. I am very frustrated about this and need to figure out how works because I need to have a log on the front page as it is a bare necessity and is also one of my design specifications. 

The screenshots below show my progress and how today's work went about: 

This screenshot shows my brief attempt to insert a top image which I assumed would be my logo. However, I later realized that this will not look good. 

This screenshot shows the different websites that I tried to make my logo or the main title of the app.

The below screenshot shows the final logo that I was able to come up with.