Local Scouting on Desktop and Internet on Android

[joelg236]

Team 4334 (Alberta Tech Alliance) is proud to announce the availability of our two scouting applications. One for Android phones/tablets and the other for desktops.

Here is the basic feature list:

Android App:

• Internet-Based (local and bluetooth planned)
• Saves locally and can upload later
• Uses Google Fusion Tables for simple data viewing
• Multiple phone support for 6+ phones to upload to the same data sheet

Our Android app is available here. We've gotten a lot of feedback and plan on improving a lot of functionality before competition. Any questions, concerns or comments can be sent by PM to "hiyou102" (without quotes).

Desktop App:

• Local-Based
• Saves every match as a different file with easy to understand names
• Separate program to compile all data into a CSV file
• Easy to use and detailed data for analysis
• Unlimited undoing of actions to prevent mistakes
• Multiple computer support for multiple users inputting data
• Open-Source
• Cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD)

To install the desktop app, go here, to download the main .jar file. Also, download all the .jar files here the same way (click and press view raw). Put these files into any folder you want. Make sure the library files are in a folder called "lib" that is inside of the same folder as the main jar file. This should look the same as here without the "README.txt" file. You should be able to run the Scouting_4334.jar file by clicking it, but if that does not work just run "java -jar LocationOfFiles/Scouting_4334.jar" in cmd/terminal.

All data and compiled data goes to *home*/scouting. To bring data entered by other computers to compile on the other one, copy all of the ".data" files into *home*/scouting of the computer you are compiling it on. All ".data" files are compiled into the .csv files inside of *home*/scouting when "File>Compile" is pressed. Those .csv files should be able to be opened in excel/libreoffice calc/gnumeric.

I wrote the desktop app in one day, so if you have questions or suggestions, PM me on Chief Delphi. The instructions might look confusing, but I'm able to answer any questions you might have.

Hopefully some people find use in these apps. We're happy to help other teams scout.

Thanks,
Joel from Team 4334