GSoC Week8 Report

The primary focus of this week has been:

Implement the price calculation.

However, this feature is not, yet, ready for running. Thus, there was no code uploaded this week. 

The working code for this week will be uploaded as soon as I finish up the remaining parts, latest by the next week.

The main challenge of this task is to implement the store-wise price calculation.

There is a bug in the Android version of the app, there was no ready algorithm for this purpose. It's more like writing something brand new rather than fit something to a different platform.

The task can be brought down roughly, as follows:

 

Core Data

Responsible for creating and managing the relationship between contains, items, prices and stores. 

Fetches and Calculations

when a list is displayed, the subtotal of the times will also be displayed at the bottom of the list.

Interfaces

Interface must be improved to accommodate the price feature and store-wise price calculation.

Potential problems are:

When a price is created, it must be associated with a store, if we intend to calculate the price base on store. However, this creates tedious input process, as the user has to input information about a store before he can do something with the price.

Therefore, it would be a challenge to present the UI in a neat and concise manner.