Looking at the Zooniverse code
Recently I’ve been looking over the Zooniverse citizen science project and its source code on github, partly because it’s interesting as a user and partly because I thought writing an Android app for...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo for Android
I just released my Galaxy Zoo android app to the Google Play store. The Zooniverse team have adopted it as their official Galazy Zoo app for Android. Like the Galaxy Zoo website, it asks you questions...
View Articleandroid-galaxyzoo: Superficial porting to Android 5.0 (Material design)
Here are some notes about my experience adapting android-galaxyzoo to Material design for Android 5.0 (Lollipop) though I only used the most superficial parts of Material design. AppCompat v21 Android...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo Android app: New Surveys
The web-based Galaxy Zoo has switched to showing subjects from two new surveys, with new sets of questions for these surveys. So I’ve updated (see in github) the Android app too and the new version is...
View Articleandroid-galaxyzoo: Fixing typical Android bugs
My Galaxy Zoo app for android has been on the Play store for several months now and seems to be generally well liked. So far it has around 800 users, increasing slowly and linearly, probably because it...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo app for iPhone: Learning iOS Development
My Android app for Galaxy Zoo is doing pretty well. Creating it gave me a chance to learn Android development quite thoroughly. So I thought I’d do the same for iOS, with Objective-C. The Galaxy Zoo...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo iPhone/iPad app
A few weeks ago I finally released my iOS app for Galaxy Zoo on the Apple App Store. Now that it’s been used a bit and I’ve had the chance to fix a couple of crashes, I’m announcing it properly. I am a...
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