Assignment 1

Anthony Sosso

The App

• SossoStats• View player statistics for EA SPORTS NHL

/r/ea_nhl clubs– Herpaderps, Puck Goes First, Reddit Aliens

Components

Mobile App• Vanilla Android• List views, radio buttons• AsyncTask• ProgressDialog• JSON parsing

Server• Python using Flask web

framework• BeautifulSoup for scraping• Jsonpickle for object->json• Queue for threading• Hosted on Heroku

Screenshots

Screenshots

Screenshots

App flow

• Startup • Select club, fetch stats• HTTP GET to server• Server HTTP GET of EA pages• Server Returns JSON of requested club• Renders with list view• Detail view onClick

Helpful Development Techniques

Server• Aptana for rapid python

dev, variable inspection• Simple scripts before

wrapping with Flask• Mocking EA page with

Dropbox public file

Client• Mocking web response with

simple strings• Eclipse for

inspection/debugging

Questions?