Treasure hunt app

Yes, I don’t actually have a name yet! Below is an evaluation of what I did.

In this task we had to build an app, to teach us about app development and E-safety. My app is a treasure hunt designed to get people outside. When you saw a picture on the phone which you could also see in the real world, you could click the button, it would check if you were in the right place and if so store your result and move on to the next image. Currently I am building a hint function that will put a quadrilateral on the map and say the image location is somewhere inside it. The app works via FTP and when it loads it communicates to my website (johnlikestocode.co.uk) and downloads a json file of web addresses to get the images from.

WWW: I was really pleased about being able to solve my problem with active and passive reference in the app. I had a list of objects to be stored on the phone, but you could not modify the object because of the way lists are implemented. I overcame this problem by taking out the list item, making an identical copy of the object, changing the values, and then putting it back in the list where it was taken from.

EBI: My hint function is crashing whenever I try to place the marker so I am trying to solve that.

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Screen grabs are available by live testing the app or changing the screen on the menu.

My friend thought it was really good and suggested I make it a treasure trail and make a hint function.

I have enjoyed being able to program something different to fit my skill level. The environment was really good for learning as well.

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