robynover/zambia-app

Ethoinformatics PhoneGap application for the Zambia project #Ethoinformatics PhoneGap application for the Zambia project ##USING IT On start-up, a dashboard screen shows you the most recent completed and in-progress Sightings and Observer Activities. From the dashboard, you can add a new sighting or observer activity or see the full list of records of either type. You can add a new record of that type by clicking the plus symbol in the top right corner of the list view. There is also a bottom navigation bar. Database and Bluetooth settings are available from the "Settings" button in the navigation bar. ##WHAT IT DOES - Record and edit observer activities - Add new types of activities. Once they are added, they will appear in the activity selection list. An initial list is built into the app. - Record and edit sightings, with the ability to add multiple phenotype records to each sighting. - Connect to a bluetooth GPS device. - Record GPS data (NMEA sentences) with each Sighting or Observer Activity record. - Save to a remote Couch database. - Provide birds-eye view of recent records on a home page dashboard. ##WHAT IT DOESN'T DO - Edit phenotypes within a record. [PRIORITY fix] - Delete records. [PRIORITY fix] - Add new phenotype categories. [PRIORITY fix] - Record census information within a sighting (though it could be added in the notes section as a stop-gap measure) - Track GPS coordinates at a set interval. It captures GPS data at the time a new record is added. Because of the volume of NMEA database records in the GeoBluetooth test app, I wanted to prioritize the Sighting and Activity records. Consistent tracking is still an option, but in the first release it is omitted as a possible complicating factor. (TLDR; Let's make sure this app works before we start saving thousands of GPS records.) ##KNOWN ISSUES - Inconsistent slow load times for lists of records. - Hitting the Update button is often required in places where it should auto-save instead (for example, changing a start or end time). For good measure, when y …