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Unread 27-01-2015, 16:31
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Re: Team 111's scouting system: WildRank

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Originally Posted by Skyehawk View Post
Here are my current questions:

Any other ideas on why my flash drive isn't being recognized? is this more likely to be a tablet problem? in which case a different tablet may very well work?

How do I go about making a custom array similar to the ones used to list the types of drivetrains, or ranking skills?

Thanks in advance.
I have no satisfactory explanation for the behavior you're seeing. It sounds like something on the tablet side; all WildRank does is check if the indicated directory exists and then does some basic file operations on the folder, so it isn't something on our end. What brand/model of tablet do you have? I can see if I can find anything about it online.

As for making a custom scouting widget, that should be pretty trivial if you're willing to learn how to make custom views in Android. You can check out the existing ones for an idea of how to do that. All you have to do to get WildRank to save your data is to make your View class implement IJSONSerializable. Again, you can reference the existing views to see how that's done.

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Originally Posted by Short Stuff View Post
How difficult would it be to create a process where you select the location of the flash drive from within the app? My team will be using multiple different kinds of tablets at competition so it would be much easier if this was possible.
That should be relatively easy to do. I don't feel like implementing a graphical file browser from scratch, so if I can find a library for that, I'll look into adding it. That isn't our highest priority at this point; we've embarked on a full rewrite of the app so getting that functional is our top priority. Remember, the whole project is open source, so if you or someone on your software subteam knows anything about Android or Java, they're welcome to fork the project and work on that themselves!

If anyone has any interest in checking out our progress on the rewrite or even contributing to it, you can check out our repo here: https://github.com/nwalters512/wildrank-android-v2