StatMan I

This is an app that's only going to be useful for me. My friends and I play NHL 16, as a team of four, online. We decided the other day that we should keep track of stats. While this will likely lead to petty in-fighting, selfish play, and the dissolution of our team dynamic, it also seemed to me like a great idea for a simple app I can make.

I think this will be fun and it's something that I told all of them I'd do, so I'll be accountable for it. Hearing "How's the StatMan app going" from someone really encourages me to want to put together a finished product that I can show them.

It's a simple idea - every player has a row, and were keeping track of goals, assists, points, as well as port game accolades. I want an image icon for each player, and I want able to sort the stats in ascending and descending order. Here's what I've got so far:

GitHub

Obviously I've got a lot of work to do, but I'm pretty sure I know exactly how I'm going to do it. That top title bar needs to be adjusted to match up with the stats, the stats I's like to move from the listView they're in now, to semi=transparent cards over a hockey themed background. When the individual stats are touch, I want a number picker to show up that will change the stats accordingly. I also want so kind of feedback on those presses, probably just a color change. I also want to be able to save the stats. I'm probably going to do that in onStop, and use either a SQLite database or sharedPreferences with gson.

Things have gone smoothly so far, the only problem I had was with my images. They were causing an outofmemory error and crashing my app. I found a couple different fixes on stack overflow. One was to just add android:largeHeap="true" to my manifest. What I ending using was a post that pointed to this Android Devs page that lays out how to use a couple helper methods to load large bitmaps efficiently. This solved the issue and my app ran successfully.