Starting Out (Week 5)

For our first blog post, we'll be explaining our project proposal. We plan to make a ham radio simulation app that allows people to practice interpreting Morse code. When you open the app, you have the options of starting the game, reading the about, or looking at the leaderboard.

If you choose the leaderboard, you are taken to a screen that displays the top ten highest scores that have been achieved by all users of the app. These will be stored in Firebase.

Our about page will just display basic information about the app.

If you choose to start the game, you will be taken to the settings screen. This allows you set your call sign, change the speed of the Morse code you will be interpreting, set the length of time you want the game to run for, and choose if you want static playing to make the sound of the radio simulation more realistic. The settings can also be accessed and changed at any point during the game by pressing the settings button.

Once you start the game, you will hear a series of call signs and you have to type in what you believe the call sign to be. If you got it right, your score increases by one. If you didn't, the letters you got wrong are displayed in red in the space above the keyboard.

After the allotted time is up, you are taken to the ending screen, which allows you to either play again or open the leaderboard.

We plan to begin coding this weekend and are going to start with making the Firebase database and creating the UI.