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top right hand corner will be modified accordingly.
A notable feature of our design are event reminders and notifications. If, in creating a lunch event, the creator chooses to send reminders to invitees and optionally also request confirmation, a push notification will appear on all invitee phones at the pre-determined time. We chose to implement notifications in this fashion to be externally consistent with other android applications. Similarly, other features of our application, such as the hardware back button and the text and calendar forms, perform operations identical to those in other android widgets for better learnability.
Implementation
Implementation was quite straightforward using the Android SDK. However, it was a challenge to set up the layout of the pages using the small set of provided Android layouts that we could use. It was also hard to ensure that the screen layout was compatible with multiple screen sizes. We ultimately chose to make the layout compatible with about 80% of Android screens currently in use, which excludes extra large screens and tablets.
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