Stock Hawk

• Project Overview:

  productionize an app, taking it from a functional state to a production-ready state. This will involve finding and handling error cases, adding accessibility features, allowing for localization, adding a widget, and adding a library.

• Why this Project?

  Stock Hawk gives an opportunity to diagnose problems and practice improving apps. These skills are vital to building apps users will love.

  Diagnosing issues with existing apps is key to working on large apps or continuing projects in Android. Being aware of the common pitfalls in app design frees a developer to produce novel app experiences without making the same mistakes over and over.

• What I Learned

  • Diagnose existing issues with an app.
  • Make an app accessible to sight-impaired users.
  • Allow the app to be localized for distribution in other countries.
  • Handle error cases in Android.
  • Add a widget to the app .
  • Leverage the functionality of a library in your app.
  • Used Yahoo finance API for all the stock data
  • Used MPAndroidChart to implement Graphs