Introducing the FRCGamePlan!

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Background:
The FRC Game Plan is an Android application I’ve developed which allows FRC teams to quickly strategize with their alliance members before a match. I came up with the idea at the West Michigan District Event when team 27, 1918, and 3357 (I was 3357′s driver) were discussing strategy before a match. 27 had a small white board with a field diagram on it which we were using to draw plays for our robots. 27 also had an enormous amount of data on each one of the teams we were competing against – including predicted scores.

It got me thinking, wouldn’t a tablet be the perfect device to do this kind of work on? I envisioned a program where a team’s coach has all the statistics he could desire, but more importantly a program where he could easily communicate strategies to the three drivers on his alliance – and all of this would be done on a tablet style device. What I’ve come up with isn’t exactly the same vision, but it’s a good start to it.

The App:
Download here

The FRCGamePlan is what I’ve come up with so far. First and foremost, it’s an open sourced app – so feel free to help me out and contribute to the project! It’s also my very first Android app (yes I didn’t even write a hello world program). Thirdly, it heavily borrows from my Sinatra based web application – StatsHub.

The user choses a match from a specific event and is presented with a view of the FRC “field”. The user can draw John Madden style diagrams to show their drivers the game plan for that match. The user can also then click on a “robot” on the field (just a button with the team’s number) and view that robot’s stats for the match. The user can change the team number of a button by holding a button down for a short time and choosing a different team number from a dialog that appears.

What’s Broken:
- The app’s menus aren’t functional
- The Kettering Event doesn’t show the stats dialogs

Future Features:
- Download the data upon startup and load it into a database
- Get this onto the Android Market
- Support MANY screen sizes
- Working menus
- Custom listView xml

Please leave your comments and suggestions below. Follow this blog post for the most up-to-date information about the FRCGamePlan. Pics are below. Thanks!





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