This document discusses an app called Army Architect that was created to help summarize and track army lists for table-top war games. The app allows users to create customized army lists on their mobile device by parsing and writing XML files to automatically calculate point values and track units, solving problems of memorizing details and doing calculations by hand. The creators demonstrated a prototype of the app and discussed lessons learned around layout, activities, intents, custom list adapters, and using log cat for debugging.

1. Army Architect Brian Murphy and Taylor Hawkins

2. Problem Table-Top games Require Army List Require Many calculations Memorizing/writing down point values Hard to keep track of Has it been done before? Yes, but differently Confined to phone Better

3. DEMO!

4. Things We’ve Learned Basic Layout Using Activities and Intents XML Parsing/Writing Custom List Adapter Log cat is where it’s at