After many months of hard work, the first version of the Travel app is complete.

You can find a video at the bottom of the page and a link to the source code here.

It was a simple idea, turn a codingkata into an app. I had no idea I would gain so much from the process. Now that the first version is complete, I want to do a short explanation of how it works.

The MainActivity displays two options: View List and Search List which open their own Activities respectively. The second Activity is the List_Activity. It displays the list of addresses using a ListView. The Action Bar features a back arrow which returns users to the MainActivity on click.

Lastly, there’s the Search_Activity. This is the main attraction of the app. It allows users to search for addresses in the list by zip code. Once entered, a new list is returned containing each address with a corresponding zip code.

The Salesman’s Travel coding kata helped me start writing code again. It was tough, but I wrote my own logic for parsing a String and obtaining information on addresses. But I wanted to do more than this.

I wanted to make something real. An actual real-world application of this seemingly strange means of filtering information.

It pushed me mentally. I had to do a ton of research along the way and I didn’t always feel like working.

It taught me about myself and how to build something on your own. Tough, but I’m glad I saw this through to the end.

The last stage for this version of the app will be releasing it on the Play Store. I’ll continue supporting it for a while, adding advanced features where I can.

This isn’t the end of my time with the Travel app. I’ll start anew with other projects soon, but I want to get a little more out of this for now.

For more on this, watch the YouTube video below. For the source code click here.

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