Earlier I had discussed how to bring the data from a database to the Windows Phone
7. Now I’d like to discuss how we think about displaying that data. It’s
important to know the relationships in the data so we can think about how everything
should be structured. We want to create a simple interface that is smooth and
logical. All data is different and this is by no means the “right” way to do
it, but it feels right to me.
This is industry standard stuff, and our data is modeled around it. Each layer
would be a collection of each sub-layer. So as an example There are multiple
tracks per breed, and multiple cards per track. A Card is a set of races for
a specific track. My best understanding is that we try very hard to stick to
one Card per day.
For this application though we aren’t going to assume anything.
It seems logical to me that we should mimic this structure in the logic, so lets try
and shoot for that. This is not the finished version, but of a mock-up of what
we might/should see.
Initial Page:
Once the breed has been selected we move onto selecting the track:
And so on…
In the future I will discuss the breakdown of each page and how the data is actually
displayed, plus how we switch between pages.
