The main focus of this week was getting ready for the design review presentation approaching next week. I was selected to give the presentation so I spent a lot of my time this week taking a look at our slides in order to give a well rehearsed presentation.
In addition for the design review I made some decisions regarding what platform the companion app would use and how it would be organized. The platform I decided on was Flutter, as it contains multiple BLE libraries that have received somewhat recent support which means that should some libraries fail I will have additional options in the Flutter space that will prevent me from having to delete all previous work. Another advantage of flutter is that is is easy to integrate with vs code and naturally contains a material library with easy to use UI elements. Unfortunately the dart language does contain some specifications that I will have to learn, but there are plenty of resources online that I can reference in the creation of the necessary app screens.
In terms of scheduling I feel that I am on pace for our current schedule. Due to the design review I have largely finished my research and design decisions and will be ready to jump into app programming immediately after the presentation and feedback have been gathered.
Future deliverables for this week will be finishing the design review slides and creating the design review document.