sunlightlabs / congress

Try an empty news panel, the refresh button doesn't work. I thought I fixed this?

For a state that's not in the list. No appropriate fallback state, I think.

I would like to see a feature where I could look up similar information about my state representative and senator, not just federal.

This'll be 1.1 - what's under 1.1 on the right will be 1.5.

Allow for local legislative bodies to be added.

Need a 72x72 icon.

Replies should be known to Twitter as replies.

I'm not sure it's showing up in the Market for the both of them.

Now that I know how to do this correctly, it's got to be done. Right now, if the screen is flipped during a network operation in a background thread, two background threads get spawned, and the network operation is done twice. Fortunately for this app, our network threads are all non-destructive GETs, but it's still wrong.

In addition, it means the post-execute handler of a thread gets called twice, and in the case of loading a legislator, this means that startActivity() gets called twice on LegislatorTabs, meaning that the user has to hit back twice (through a clone of the activity) to get out -- and if the user has window loading animations enabled, they'll visually see the LegislatorTabs activity zoom in (or whatever) twice.

If the user wants more info, it'll appear in a dialog. Should be in the context menu on the profile page.

Alternatively, if this isn't discoverable enough, we can have it be "beneath the fold".

On shortcut creation only, if we have to download the images from the network, the download happens on the UI thread. This should happen in the background, while a spinner spins.

Before market release.

The debugger indicates they stay even after the LegislatorTabs activity has loaded.

Which is insane.

Two popup boxes appear, only the second one works.

In case somebody doesn't know the state code.

Prior to launch.

Instead of removing the http:// and still trusting the autolink, have an actual link where the text is the domain, but the linked-to URL is the full thing.

It's out now.

The images should be clearable from the cache for the app, and shouldn't show up in the regular photo gallery.

This isn't urgent; big and small screens won't hit 'til the holidays.

Simpler, more robust, don't have to maintain my own.

Simpler, more correct.

As displayed on the top of profiles, and on search results. e.g. "Jesse Jackson Jr."

Force close!

Use the onRetainNonConfigurationInstance callbacks to store the array during a flip.

The Twitter Settings should be accessible from the menu from the Twitter screen.

Try:
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(bis)

where bis is a BufferedInputStream over an InputStream from a URLConnection's getInputStream().

Menu option should read "Add To Contacts", and prepopulate a contact activity with the info we know about.

e.g.

MA-5
MA-Senior
MA-Junior

So that people don't check out a legislator for whom we have nothing and conclude we only do news mentions.

Try it out, see how it looks.

For any type of search, don't show the user a list of one result.

I used the location feature in DC and Eleanor Holmes Norton came up. Success! However, when I went home in MD and used the location feature, Eleanor repeatedly showed up instead of my members of Congress.

The app right now will cache these missing photos and then never look for the replacements. However, there's no way for the phone to tell when it got a "No Photo" and when it got an actual photo.

To solve this, we'll expire our cache after a month. If photo's last modified time was more than a month ago, re-download it.

If the user has location detection entirely off, we don't want the button to just stay disabled without any idea of why. Provide a way for the user to request searching by location, and to take the user to the GPS settings screen if it's off.

Using the GPS, instead of just network activity, may disable the location button

This should open up the Gmail compose screen with the subject filled in, and the To address being an alias we create in-house to receive feedback.

The little grey window title. Make it the name.

Let's have it launch a separate activity entirely that is just a blank screen with some text and a refresh button that tries it again. Lame, but better than creating temporary tabs.

The scalars should be stored and reloaded from a Bundle, instead of hitting the network again. Applies to rotating the keyboard while in any tab on LegislatorTabs.

When the reply button is open, flipping once is fine - flipping twice is a force close.

You can fit all the info in one screen if you have a different layout for landscape mode.

The dialog will stay forever after rotating. No good.

Once you open a legislator's tab activity, set the window's title to their name.

Make a quicker and smaller shortcut choosing process.

Main Menu:
- Preferences - About

Profile and other tabbed activities:
- Call - Visit Website

Something a little nicer, clearer, and with icons.

Take the legislators for whom we have no twitter account, and get to Googling for them.

Use the Senate Hub and House Hub to increase our data stores on legislator YouTube accounts.

Charlie Rangel's tweet list becomes gradually unresponsive to clicking. This is extremely alarming.

The format of timestamps on old tweets should drop the "days ago" syntax.

Sweep the app's code looking for places to optimize performance. Bear this document in mind:

http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performance.html

They should say something like "Click on an item to ...", and run only the first time a user visits each activity.

As a long press menu item.

As a long press menu item.

As a long press menu item.

Long press menus on News, YouTube, and Twitter lists.

An About screen, accessible via the context menu on the MainMenu activity, should have Sunlight Labs' logo, URL, link to the source, and whatever other attributions we want to make (Yahoo! News API, Sunlight Labs API, at the least).

This screen should introduce users to the app and say what they can do with it.

Should mention the ability to create shortcuts, and to reply to tweets.

Including the app icon, phone/web icons for the profile, and tab icon headers.

Flipping the keyboard on any of the screens which do network activity in an external thread and bring up dialogs, will bring up the dialog again and it will not end.

Moreover, we shouldn't need to re-do any network activity when flipping, information should be saved and restored.

Right now it force closes on attempts to reach the network, if the user is offline. Not acceptable.

Unsquash them.

On the legislator profile, we need a better regex or way of displaying URLs. Check out Barney Frank's profile for an example.

...not bring existing activities to the front.

Check out these two flags, one of them is appropriate:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTIPLE_TASK

It's broken in portrait mode at least - check out Del. Norton.

Test each screen in landscape mode.

When doing a news search, and there are no results, don't just show a blank screen.