Your Leader

An android application that gives you information on the current people who have taken offices at different levels based on the location searched by the user

Uses

• Location Services
• Internet
• Google APIs
• Images
• Picasso Library
• Implicit Intents
• TextView Links

Application Highlights

• This app will acquire and display an interactive list of political officials that represent the current location (or any specified location) at each level of government.
• Android location services will be used to determine the user’s location
• The Google Civic Information API will be used to acquire the government official data (via REST service and JSON results)
• Uses different layout for landscape orientation for 2 of the activities in this application
• Clicking on an official’s list entry opens a detailed view of that individual government representative
• An “About” activity will show application information (Author, Copyright data & Version)
• The application is made up of 4 activities
  • Main Activity
  • Official Activity
  • Photo Detail Activity
  • About Activity