Table hockey madness (part 2)

Hi,

This post is continuation to the first part of the series about the development of another Garmin ConnectIQ app that can be used for bookkeeping of scores in a table hockey or football game.

Let’s start with the actual work now. First I want to sketch a couple of prototype screens for the app. As tool I use the piece of software Pencil that is freely available. The figure below is the start screen of the app. There simply is a label and a button for starting a new game. Before this the user has configured the app (number of periods,  time to play etc.).

The figure below illustrates the planned main view with the label for periods and remaining time as well as buttons for incrementing the score of each player (player 1 to the left and player 2 to the right). At this point the user simply taps the button to increase the score. Naturally this is not optimal due to accidental clicks, but in that case it is possible to click the other player’s score to even the state. 🙂

Finally, after a game has been finished, the final score is shown (figure below). Additionally, there should be a function for resetting and restarting a game.

With this very simple plan I will start with the development. Obviously I haven’t thought about everything, and the plan has probably have to be revised, but I want to keep the process as simple as possible, and maybe improve the app later, if it the interest remains.

In the following part I will proceed with the actual development by using Eclipse and ConnectIQ SDK as tools. Until then!