Engineering Note Oct 7

This week, among other things that will be mentioned in the next notebook entry, we worked on the front end of the artist page. A lot of the xml written previously by a team member was reformatted and rearranged by another team member. It seems that using the Design feature in Android Studio to put widgets on the page created a lot of unnecessary nested layouts. This makes deciphering the XMl on the text page very difficult. A lot of these unnecessary nested layouts were taken out, and components of the page, such as the placement of the text under the album images, were rearranged. The next step is figure out the server side of this app to store user login information, rating data, and artist and album information. We also need to find a good source of the album and artist information to extract from and put on the server. We have began working on this. This will be discussed in more detail in the next entry.