Music Pro Phase 2

Objective

This assessment requires you to add email, http and Google maps to the MusicPro application.

Introduction

You are required to add the following features to the MusicPro applications

• Send an invitation to the current venue in the details view by opening the share facility and loading the email with a title and body text
• Fetch the details of the weeks top-rated venue from a remote web server using HTTP
• Add a new activity that displays Google Maps with a marker for the top-rated venue

Project Requirements

• You must start with the assessment 1 solution provided
• You must not use any techniques that were not covered in the tutorials

1. Email Message

• Update the Details Page to include a Send Invitation button as shown below. see image.
• Set the email title to be Invitation
• Set the email body to be
  • You are invited to venue_name_here
• If the venue has an openning time append the text
  • tonight at venue_opening_time_here
• Open the chooser to select the send application
• The button should not respond if the name or address is empty

See share and email example below: see image.

NOTE: You do NOT need to open the contact list to select a recipient

2. Fetch Top-Rated Venue

You are to establish a http connection to the following URL and download the JSON file using an AsyncTask. The JSON file will provide the details of the top-rated venue.

http://jellymud.com/venues/best_venue.json

The JSON data will be in the following format.

{
"name" : "Salt House",
"address" : "The Pier, Cairns",
"lat" : -16.9184416,
"lon" : 145.7810191
}

Complete the following tasks:

• Copy the FlickrFetchr class file to your application
• Rename FlickrFetch to VenueFetchr
• Modify it to download the venue details and return a single venue object
• Execute the AsyncTask thread when the application starts to fetch the top-rated venue

3. Google Map

Complete the following tasks:

• Create a new Map Activity
• Open the map activity from the Map button on the main page
• Pass the downloaded top-rated venue to the map activity see image.

Set the following:

• Position (center) the map on the location of the top-rated venue using its latitude and longitude
• Zoom to a factor of 14
• Display a marker at the venue location
• Display the name of the venue when the user clicks on the marker