Space-Time Tagger

This is an Android app which allows you to 'tag' the current time (and optionally your current location) and store these tags in a list for later review. Broadly, it's similar to the structure of Google Keep, where you can manage a list of lists.

The motivating use case is if you're filming something over a long period of time and want a list of key moments to revisit afterwards, without having to skim through the whole video.

It is a work-in-progress.

Use

The app is not (currently) directly available anywhere, but you can clone/fork this repository and install it on an android phone with developer mode enabled.

Features

Current

• Sessions List screen to see/add/delete sessions.
• Session Detail screen to see/add/delete tags within a session.
• Settings screen to toggle whether current location is stored in tags (requesting permission if necessary).
• Allow app to run over the lock screen.
• Optionally allow app to keep the screen on.

Note: No data is persisted after the app closes. This will change soon.

Potential Future

See enhancements on GitHub.

• Persist session data.
• Integration tests.
• Map view of tags.
• Improve styling and colours.
• Ability to create tags from a notification on the phone's lock screen.
• Settings for default session names.
• Ability to 'start' a session (introducing a relative timestamp, in addition to the absolute timestamp).
• Ability to mark sessions and/or tags as complete/archived (rather than deleting them).

Original Intentions

• Build an Android app from scratch - first personal Android project.
• Get more familiar with basic architecture and implement best practices, including tests - prior experience has all been modifying existing apps.
• A relatively basic, but still useful Android app.

Focus

• Android architecture.
• Good code.
• Tests.
• Clean git history, with a functional app at all points.
• Android permissions - location in particular.
• Allowing actions via phone lock screen.

Flaws

See the issues on GitHub, in addition to the following:

• Toasts won't show when the phone is locked and the app is being used on the lock screen.
• Not sure whether dependency injection into repositories is done correctly - (application) context is passed in sometimes.