Overview
Solar You is an application that converts your age and weight (in pounds) on any chosen planet to its equivalent for any planet in our solar system. It is designed with you in mind. There are no extraneous submission or convert buttons, simply enter your age, weight, and planet and it will update automatically.
Interaction:
1) Enter age in years, days, or both
2) Enter weight in lbs
3) Select your home planet
4) Change any of the above and the application will automatically update
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Design:
My goal with this application was to make the entire application really simple without sacrificing functionality. To this end, I made two main design choices. The first is that everything automatically updates after every change. This allowed me to remove the submit/convert button freeing up valuable screen estate. The second decision was setting a default of all planets, weight in pounds, and age in years. Together, these allowed me to maintain everything on a single page while maintaining a simple but elegant display.
As this was my first android application, I felt that this was a really fun project that allowed me to learn a lot about the basic functionalities behind an application. There are definitely improvements to be made, one of which is finding a way to incorporate the choice between years/days and pounds/kilogram.
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