This week was a pretty eventful one. Now that React Native has been finalized as our development environment, each team member has started working on creating their own app. We’ve begun researching into how to develop for this environment, and we’re getting a feel for its intricacies. This experience is gonna help us make the eventual development of our weather app smoother.

We’ve continued to research into the accessibility options that iOS and Android offer. This is gonna help us to tailor our app more effectively towards the blind and low-vision community. Furthermore, we’ve begun looking into other accessible apps and how they’ve gone about being low-vision friendly. This is giving us a lot of useful information for making our app as intuitive and effective as possible.

Not everything has been completely easy though. In researching weather API options we’ve found that some of the companies either don’t disclose their full prices or don’t describe the full extent of their feature set. For the next few weeks we’re going to be contacting these companies to get a better understanding of what they can offer us. We will relay this information to the liaison for their approval. Other than that, we are going to continue to do research and plan out the scope of the project for the next coming weeks.