Painter app, premortem and postmortem – Ian Brown and Jake Vosters
For this app we wanted to make a paint program similar to the one you can find on any windows machine.
On the main screen you can choose from a number of preset colors. You can also use buttons to save our masterpiece or to clear the screen. If you click the paint palette, a menu pops up that lets you choose your brush size, opacity, and gives you RGB values if you want custom colors. On the main menu there is a save button and you have options to save your masterpiece to the ipad camera roll or you can upload it to twitter. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to test the twitter part because the app only runs on the ipad if it’s connected to a school computer (certificate things), and I’ve been having trouble getting into the room we are in for class (literally no other macs on campus have xcode and you can’t access the app store… so frustrating). I’m going to try to get into the lab tomorrow and test it, then I’ll edit this post to include screenshots.
pros of this project:
- It was fun to get to use multiple UIImageViews, at first it was frustrating because opacity wasn’t working, so I had to use a second one to act as a temporary holder and then transfer it to the bottom.
- Painting is fun!
cons:
- Hassle to test on a device.
Blugolds being claimed:
- Working with the canvas to perform custom drawing
- Integrating the iOS Twitter framework
- Multi-touch interaction
Screenshots:
