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Apple Application Development

Course Project

Vacation Packing Application

Final Write Up

Project designed by Meg Combs

Software Engineering Department

Auburn University

App Description

The goal for this project is to introduce an automated way to plan, save your thoughts and work on travel clothing plans throughout your day using your I-device. This application assists a person with planning and organizing all of their tops, bottoms and shoes needed for their trip. The application will systematically help the traveler, after they have made selections, to view o n l y their clothing and shoes in which they have selected as if it is in their suitcase. The user is able to then see if they are satisfied with what they packed or go back and add more to the suitcase.

Outline of How to Run the Application 1) The user is prompted to choose the destination of their travels, so the user must click one of the 4 table cells.

2) Next, another table is displayed and the user can select as few or as many items to pack.

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3) Once the user has checked all the items they want to pack, the user clicks the done button.

4) Lastly the done button takes the user to the final screen, which is also a table view. This table view shows the user what is packed in their virtual suitcase.

5) The users options now are to click the back button and add more items or to click back twice to start over packing for a new location or to quit the app. App Images Image 1 shows the start screen. The table has the location choices such as beach, city, mountains, and outdoors.

Image 2 & 3 shows the second screen that will appear once the user selects the location. They will have images of shirts, bottoms and shoes to choose to pack in their suitcase. Once the user has checked all the items they want they must click the done button for the app to go to image 4.

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Image 4 is the final screen. This will be the virtual suitcase and the table has the items that were chosen from the previous screen.

Interesting Design Work

For this app, I found it interesting learning how to add images to cells. At first I was stuck with making each cells image different but used the less efficient way with multiple if else statements. Even more interesting, the original app design was not to use 3 table views; it was to use pickers. I found pickers extremely complicated to work with; therefore found myself starting over on this app design multiple times before it clicked with me to use table views. Table views seem to be the most efficient at displaying selections. In conclusion, I have enjoyed the learning element of designing this app. I see myself in the near future bettering this app as I become more advanced in Objective C to make this app more and more useful. This project has given me a concept of how much goes into sophisticated apps. Overall, I have enjoyed the

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learning and designing process of this app.