Home

Architect Support Tool Cover

1.
2.
3.
4. p RD ij i udi dui 1 1 SST E p p i p 2 7 o a qq o 2 UN 2 717 217 vt X 3 UNS O O 3 di 0 0 d 08 D 0D 0 D
5. yyy _ a o _ m tE 0 2 1 ek b ie s E E E PERHERE Bi Hi p Hi Hi EEEE EEEE E RR M ES E hdd E Hi RS PE RS Hi Hii d E gt QU gt E E c mo E o qu a E 4 E E _ oe E w gt pr PERHERE PERHERE pi PERHERE pi EEEE PERHERE ERES PEPEE EA A AENA OAND AANA ANA II Hi z Hi Hi PERHERE pi PERHERE EEEE Hi EEEE PERHERE kt Ticar Ems _ See dq qq qq T 1 Tr T m ic s
6. E Ep E o S E E 2 7 o a qq o 2 UN 2 B E vU X di 098 0 3 Ub E B E i amp E E 1 E E E B E E E 4 E E pre ES E D ES E ER AS g D _ E E E E E gd E d a E S p E pou ERE B E E E E khao E j E oe ES ES d p E E E p dE om p E E pu s E E o o o EU p E y E A IS S p E ES ES E E p ES poo d p e EE Be M n pu o o T Qu o o i Alexandre Uroz Lazaro amp UNIVERSITAT POLIT CNICA 5 DE CATALUNYA
7. j p p T p p 2 i i T am ay E ae S ow i wd de p h UNIVERSITAT POLIT CNICA DE CATALUNYA BARCELONATECH FIB Alexandre Uroz Lazaro TU Politechnika Wroctawska Wydzia Informatyki i Zarz dzania Trte Development of a software tool to support atchitects Volume 1 1 Student Alexandre Uroz Lazaro Tutor Dr Krzysztof W
8. 28 3 DESIGN AND IMPEEMENTATION eexhs s cusua ERE E V cB Qu kk Eua YRE OE CE au cR Va 29 3 1 PROPOSE DADE SIGN etic utin bore DAD LIU 29 3 2 AROHITEGT SUPPORT TOOL sia vv dus AU EL cU 29 ST Manand Menu Scree dau DAN EE 29 muc debui nur dat tuac 30 329 regi E X HM 32 324 Galery eiim T 34 329 tal Nate asian 38 iA 39 Load MT Hr 40 328 Create anew e 43 dum SEAS COMM a ates lon abe tte od dah a nia a Dees eaten LIE adi E dE 44 3 2 10 CONNECTING COLO s scp bt at eit roe ideis bo ek ee Re 45 3 2 11 ADI M M nM AM ELM MI DIM DLE 46 3 2 12 tmc elio Eco ANTON eH 47 3 2 13 BOORI ORB E ON E 54 3 2 14 tei ect 55 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 15 Clear
9. 3 3 DESIGN OF THE DATA BASE 3 3 1 Save drawing scenario 3 3 2 Save pathology scenario 3 3 3 Save temporary scenario 3 89 4 Save checklist scenario 3 89 5 Creation and purpose of each table TESTING AND PERFORMANCE PLANNING BUDGE 0 erem cba a atl et ete ele ee eae POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS AND eos Bilal ANNEX A IMAGES INDEX 220 AE a A A me EEE ANNEX B CODE INDEX E AE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES iiti oer eme IEEE ooi E eti Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 Introduction 1 1 Project justification and development s environment The idea of doing this project began back at 2010 in Spain have a friend who is an architect and in a casually chat we were having he commented me of how at the moment there was no significant application to help architect s like him when they were working in the streets analyzing reviewing and studying the buildings In this particular case his job consisted of visiting flats and buildings in order to find pathologies circumstances that appear on buildings that diminish their security value and comfort The
10. Alexandre Uroz Lazaro h UNIVERSITAT POLIT CNICA B DE CATALUNYA BARCELONATECH TU Politechnika Wroctawska Wydzia Informatyki i Zarz dzania Trte Development of a software tool to support atchitects Volume 1 1 Student Alexandre Uroz Lazaro Tutor Dr Krzysztof Wa ko Department Systemy multimedialne mobilne Date 24 of September 2012 Minimum Requeriments Smartphone with android version 2 1 system with integrated camera and sd card Installation For now just copy the ArchTool apk in your smartphone and execute it to install it in the future it will be published on Play Store AST User Manual Architect Support Tool user manual for architects i 18 59 Architect Support Tool Clear Data All information in this manual is based on a prototype so the appearance of errors bugs or instability is as undesirable it is expected We ask for the user reading this manual to understand these limitations and try to use it as best as his possibilities while it is being improved Architect Support Tool User Manual Welcome The Architect Support Tool from now on refereed simply as AST is an application to support and help architects in his daily duties We hope that this prototype is being focused on the right path and it will be useful for you Being said that we are glad that you have deposited your trust in us and we are going to fully explain how
11. 18 NE TOR MODE Zea DEP ML Li ER E IM 18 3 11 Bere a Er MR Bane 19 ze NIME REM 19 23S CEAR DA T Pee ee er ee m eR ee ERI PL MU 20 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 Preparation The idea of doing this project began back at 2010 in Spain have a friend who is an architect and in a casually chat we were having he commented me of how at the moment there was no significant application to help architects like him when they were working in the streets analyzing reviewing and studying the buildings In this particular case his job consisted of visiting flats and buildings in order to find pathologies circumstances that appear on buildings that diminish their security value and or comfort They need all this information for several purposes sometimes because the client requested a check of the security of the building and if it is needed to do some fixings other times they need it in order to issue the certificate of occupancy other times it might be just simple as to document the state of a building during its lifetime Usually all this information is gathered by hand making notes and taking photos so as later introduce them in a computer using their main popular architect program like AutoCad He told me it would be really useful to have some sort of applic
12. Water leakage on the wall owner says it began last week after heavy Water leakage on the wall owner says It began last week after heavy rain aln Probably it comes from the roof Probably it comes from the roof Image 3 20 Gallery filling info Image 3 21 Gallery accepting changes When the user inserted all the desired information he only needs to push the Ok button to save it If he does not want to save it then he needs to push the back button 96 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved user Draw 1 1 Select option Option 1 3 Show entity selected screen Entity 1 4 1 Show gallery Gallery 1 4 2 1 Navigate 1 4 2 3 Input Description 1 4 2 3 Input Elements Affected Image 3 22 SD of Gallery Window Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 5 Scrolling This feature wasn t described on the initial Analysis of requirements but soon it was clear that it would be needed in order to see the entire map Image 3 23 Option menu Scroll Image 3 24 Scrolling map After when the user selects the Scroll button of he option menu he will be on Scroll Mode now he can touch the screen and move his finger in order to move the map with its movement at the desired place When he will finish he will need to push the scroll button option again to leave from the Scroll Mode Sequence diag
13. 3 20 GALLERY PUL ISING INEO 36 IMAGE 9 2 GALLERY ACCEPTING CHANGES 36 IMAGES 22 SDVOE GALLERY WINDOW casi ES 37 IMAGES 25 OPTION MENU SCROLL DELE 38 IMAGE 3 24 SCROLLING 38 29 90 OP SCROEE ING 38 IMAGE gt 20 OPTION MENU SAV vane rodea one wane 39 IN AGES 2 40 IMAGES 295 LOAD BUTTON MENU SCREEN loti 40 IMAGES 29 LOAD BUTTON OPTION MENU dete debe EE n quate edu A ida qa ems 40 IMAGED CRPE N G 41 IMAGES SIC SEEBECTING EROM LOAD ore ee lev cios ava gasto emus idi etus 4 IMAGE 3 32 AFTER LOADING THE SELECTED 41 IMAGE 3 33 SD OF LOADING FROM MENU SCREEN cccscccsccscccsccssccnccesccucceuccesceusceucsusceccesssusces
14. Image 3 79 Clear Data button Unfortunately this is the only way to delete all the generated information in this prototype as we didn t have time to create individual delete operations for each map and pictures 57 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 3 Design of the Data Base The Data Base will be made using SQLite in particular there will be 4 Tables in which one of them is stored a particular relevant data Before entering into explaining those tables we need to remember when and what we need to store 3 3 1 Save drawing scenario When the user selects Save from the application he wants the current map to be saved The relevant information of a current map Is e Current drawn Bitmap e The Data array mapCoordinates responsible to divide the map in sections and label them depending if on these sections there is an entity or not e he Data array aEntities responsible to save all entities in the map The ID of the current map e he pictures captured from pathologies For the last point as they are already saved into the SD card as per the Camera application works we only need the name of the picture so an string will be enough The first point the Bitmap is stored in the SD using the ID of the current map for later locate it The rest of this information is stored into an object class called public class saveObject implements Serializable pri
15. can see there are some variables that its purpose is to control in which mode we those were implemented later those modes gives the user the option to scroll the map to delete a wall to select a wall and to insert a door The touch_start function responsible to draw is as follows fEndX fStartX fbEndY fStartY X Point pI new Point iStartX iStartY Tolerance to connect points between lines PointF newPointF computeTolerance pI if newPointF null fStartX x newPointF x fStartY y newPointF y mPath reset mPath moveTo x y mBitmap2 mBitmap copy mBitmap getConfig true Code 2 5 Touch_start function wen drawing Its main purpose is to save that touching point into the global variables fEndX fStartX idem for Y axis that later will be used Also it needs to make a copy of the current bitmap We can see a new function called compute Tolerance it is responsible to detect if there is another point near of the one that the user touched and if it exists use that point instead The touch move function responsible to show how the user is drawing a line in the screen is as follows float dx Math abs x fEndX float dy Math abs y fEndY If the movement is too small ignore it if dx TOUCH TOLERANCE dy TOUCH TOLERANCE Retrieve original bitmap mBitmap mBitmap2 copy mBitmap2 getConfig true mCanvas setBitmap mBitmap Draw th
16. 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 O 2 User touches the Load option a l 3 The system launches a Load window with a list of all the current saved maps 4 User touches the selected map fs 5 The system close this window and loads the selected map as it was the last time was saved Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case No possible errors with this use case if there is not previous saved maps the user will not be able to load a map Use case Clear database Actors Simple user starter Description Deletes all the data from the application 22 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes 1 User wants to delete all data l 2 User touches the Clear Data option 1 3 The system deletes and removes all data from the application Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case If the user mistakenly chose this option there will be no recovery This should be extended in the next step of the proptotype User Save current map Retrieve map Clear Data Image 2 4 Use case diagram of the Persistent Core 2 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 Problem specification In this section we are going to detail which are going to be entities that will intervene and what they will have to exactly do To make the specification we have to chose a methodology in orde
17. 1 1008 m u E d H d Ds 1 217 i 1 us p p Bf p E eee Et p g c gd T 3 ER uo a m WAL hdi ae S E om d p p p 000 S S S S 1 p 0 v jWL o Dc e Rp o o o dij o i 1i D i D dij Alexandre Uroz Lazaro amp UNIVERSITAT POLIT CNICA 5 DE CATALUNYA BARCELONATECH Politechnika Wroctawska Wydzia Informatyki i Zarz dzania Trte Development of a software tool to support atchitects Volume 1 1 Student Alexandre Uroz Lazaro Tutor Dr Krzysztof Wa ko Department Systemy multimedialne mobilne Date 24 of September 2012 Development of a software tool to support architects AST by Alexandre Uroz Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Dedicated to all my friends and specially my family without them would had never finished Alex Moltes gr cies a tots els amics i companys que m he anat trobant durant la carrera i especialment als amics de l escola i a la magnifica gent de Wroclaw Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 INTRODUCTION RNO 5 1 1 PROJECT JUSTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT S 5 1 2 PROJECT GOA BM P lature esl Oe e
18. Door Image 3 75 Option menu CheckList Y 20 33 Architect Support Tool 19 39 Architect Support Tool Dimensions Ventilation Windows Windows Smoke Pipe SMOKE Pipe Gas Pipe Gas Pipe Lights Lights Plugs Plugs Image 3 76 Checklist screen Image 3 77 Accepting changes When the user selects the Checklist Option menu the Checklist screen will appear with all the elements to be checked If the user does not want to make any modification or just to read it he will need to touch the back button instead of the Ok button All maps has one checklist associated to them 56 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved Draw Checklist p iHome Button Show i gt Option 1 2 Checklist 121 Show BH LALLE Changes of list of elements 1 3 Checklist 2 Home Butto P mE Image 3 78 SD of Checklist screen 3 2 15 Clear data This button allows the user to delete all the information of the system pictures and databases related to the application of course 18 59 Architect Support Tool Clear Data
19. e a IU eu ou 31 OPTION EXTENDED MEN 31 OPTION a 31 IMAGE 329 PRACTICAIZSBEEC T EXAMPLE 32 IMAGE S TO PRASCEHCAESBELECTEXAMPBLEE C 32 IMAGE POPUPIENTIDY WINDOW 32 IMAGE 3 12 BLACK WALL AFTER INSERTING PATHOLOGY entes esses ese ee sese se eene 33 SE DS SS DSOE COP TION MEN cuta co Caes er de 34 IMAGE 3 14 GALLERY ICON IN ENTITY WINDOW OR DOG edo e 34 IMAGE 3 15 GALEBRY WINDONW exea Desv eh Uses oe ea S T ENE EE NOE NE 35 IMAGE 3 16 NAVIGATING BETWEEN PHOTOS cccccscccssccsscccscccusccesccessceesceusccusccuscceusseusceescceusseusccuseseueseesesens 35 IMAGE 3 17 NAVIGATING BETWEEN PHOTOS 35 IMAGE 3 15 GALLERY TEXT BIBEDS secs 36 IMAGE 3 19 GALLERY INPUT METHOD kasinoetan e pato eoa Eod 36
20. But as a prototype and to test it it s a good beginning After this will see how much can improve this solution and am eager to show it to my friend in Spain Jaume Casadevall Puig the actual architect who gave me the idea and supported me giving me all the required information from an architect point of view As for my personal learning and enjoyment already loved to do this thesis in such a beatiful country as Poland and especially in such a multicultural city like Wroctaw People were surprised when asked to stay here for more time in order to work they were thinking that could do that back at my home town but it wouldn t be the same am really grateful to my home unirvesity Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and my hosting university Politechnika Wroctawska to allow me to stay here more time in order to finish this thesis and being so comprehensible to me Finally thanks to my tutor Krzysztof Wasko who even always busy and having to cope with Erasmus people that sometimes do not even know how to speak proper English I hope am not the case never let me out and supported me 68 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 9 Annex A Images index IMAGE 2 1 USE CASE DIAGRAM OF THE DRAW 18 IMAGE 2 2 USE CASE DIAGRAM OF THE PATHOLOGY CORE ese ee
21. Ci Wall wallpaper roof too probably Image 1 14 Description of the pathology ui Image 1 13 Gallery window 2 Clear data 18 53 Architect Support Toal Press the Clear Data button from the main screen to delete all the application data from your mobile device Be sure to do that Clear Data Image 2 1 Clear Data button Architect Support Tool User Manual 3 Real case scenarios These are real examples of use of this application from an architect point of view Jaume Casadevall Puig from Catalonia let him to speak directly to you of how to use AST from his experience 3 1 Evaluating living conditions Here at Catalonia and surely on other countries there is a specific law about the living conditions for houses There are some requirements have to check Some are the dimensions of the pieces and others are about installations how many plugs are on the house lights on all the pieces etc made a test I ve made fast drawing of the flat and also used the app checklist to check everything is all right US 10 35 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Dimensions Ventilation 1 Windows Smoke Pipe lt Gas Pipe Lights Plugs Here we can see the fast sketch drawing and also the checklist The conclusion is that it was a good way to speed up all the process and simplify the way do field work Architect Support Tool User Manual 3 2 Patholog
22. IMAGE 3 52 IMAGE 3 53 IMAGE 3 54 IMAGE 3 55 IMAGE 3 56 IMAGE 3 57 IMAGE 3 58 IMAGE 3 59 IMAGE 3 60 IMAGE 3 61 IMAGE 3 62 IMAGE 3 63 IMAGE 3 64 IMAGE 3 65 IMAGE 3 66 IMAGE 3 67 IMAGE 3 68 IMAGE 3 69 IMAGE 3 70 IMAGE 3 71 IMAGE 3 72 IMAGE 3 73 IMAGE 3 74 IMAGE 3 75 IMAGE 3 76 IMAGE 3 77 IMAGE 3 78 IMAGE 3 79 WALL AT 90 WALL AT 180 SD OF VECTOR MODE Master Thesis WY RONG DRAWN WATE dee a Pat breue mU iM Meroe ANGLE IS 355 INPUTNEN ANGLE ed ANGLE AT 0 NEWCORRECTED WATT venit Scutari ston an DPRASING WAT at we edie I ach a aes D a8 uc D Ui ahs FIXING ANGLE NEW ANGLE AT 180 NEW WALL ENTITY WINDOW CHANGING LENGTH ACCEPTING CHANGES SHORTENED WALL TO 3 5M NEW PAINTED WALL LENGTH OF THE WALL 10 1M INU WV TSE NGS sae EES E ges ni A E anaes oe NEWREPAINTEL WA DU I insta ebat DUE ioco INE WR PAIN TE WII Bin Sate hacia Gamal Onsen eG CORRECTING ANGLE TO 180 INEWRBPAENTED WAT I di Eu Rat ru COE CORRECTED OPTION MENU DOOR FLAT WITH DOORS S
23. OF EIEN Listo Image 3 60 Entity window Image 3 61 Changing length We see that the wall has 7 7 meters of length 77 decametres in order to divide this room we have to shorten it into a half So 3 5 meters will be good enough p n8 19 29 Architect Support Tool Image 3 62 Accepting changes Image 3 63 Shortened wall to 3 5m Ok now we are going to draw another wall to prepare this first room we will do it by finger and we will not care so much about trespassing other walls because we will correct it through the Length parameter 51 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Fl 1330 Architect Support Tool Image 3 64 New painted wall Image 3 65 Length of the wall 10 1m Either by trial and error or checking the length of the parallel wall or just because we already know we correct the length size to 8 4 meters and so we accept the changes di 19 32 Architect Support Tool Image 3 66 New length size 8 4m Image 3 67 New repainted wall Now we can see how we manage to do a room inside the first one let s go to finish this process drawing the last wall 52 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 19 32 Architect Support Tool Image 3 68 New repainted wall Again it happened the same thing as before there is a point around there where the Connecting Points Core redraws our line into it But now we know how to fix that real
24. S 3 1 EVALUATING LIVING CONDITIONS 12 ede diet n cR up ea e cdi 3 2 PATHOLOGY INSPEGTIONz2 ao E 3 3 amp e eB DN EEEE T EEE A E E EAE AEE EE EPILOGUE Architect Support Tool User Manual 1 Drawing screen This is the drawing screen and the option menu to select all the options of the application To draw you only need to paint lines using your finger on the screen m 18 59 LX ay 19 00 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Scroll Select Mas Image 1 1 Drawing screen Image 1 2 Option menu 1 1 Options Menu 1 1 1 Selecting Press the Select button and touch the wall that you want to see all the information related to it You will see in this screen Starting Point Ending Point Angle Degrees Length In Decametres You will be able to modify the Angle and Length parameter to redraw the wall as you wish Through this screen you will be able to take pictures of pathologies through the Camera icon and view and insert descriptions to them Image 1 3 Selection window through the Folder icon Architect Support Tool User Manual When you will take a picture the wall will change its colour from red means no pathology inserted to black means that wall has a pathology Image 1 4 Black wall after 1 1 2 Scrolling inserting pathology Press the Scroll
25. e printStackTrace finally finish Code 2 1 Main class invoking Menu class Menu java is just a graphical layout with three buttons that allows the user to choose what to do We will focus on the important button that invokes the Draw java activity and it s where almost all our application is written on Button tut1 Button findViewById R id Draw Button tut2 Button findViewById R id Load Button tut4 Button findViewById R id cleardata tut1 setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener public void onClick View v buttonSound start startActivity new Intent com pwroc ArchTool DRAW 1955 Code 2 2 Menu class declaration of buttons and call to Draw class Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 Draw Class After we have done the basic screen navigation then we begin to create the Draw class which is the most important class of the program We need first to create the ability to draw objects with the user s finger on the screen this is done creating a View class called MyView where we are overriding its onDraw method This method is called all the time the screen needs to refresh its contents In order to paint we need a Canvas and a Bitmap the Bitmap is the image that is being generated after drawing in the Canvas the canvas is no more than the screen of the smartphone Override protected void onDraw Canvas canvas canvas drawColor Color WHI
26. BARCELONATECH Politechnika Wroctawska Wydzia Informatyki i Zarz dzania Trte Development of a software tool to support atchitects Volume 1 1 Student Alexandre Uroz Lazaro Tutor Dr Krzysztof Wa ko Department Systemy multimedialne mobilne Date 24 of September 2012 This thesis 15 divided in three documents 1 ARCHITECT SUPPORT TOOL FULL DESCRIPTION Full description of the thesis intended for Informatics specialists 2 ARQUITECT SUPPORT TOOL RESUME Resume description of the thesis intended for Informatics specialists 3 ARQUITECT SUPPORT TOOL MANUAL Manual of the application intended for architects and end users Each one of them are independent documents but they are enclosed together for delivery purposes
27. again in order to leave the Delete mode 44 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved user Draw 1 Button 11 Show Option 1 2 Delete Mode 1 3 Delete Mode 2 Home Button Image 3 41 SD of Erase a wall 3 2 10 Connecting Points Core Taking the same example as before as we stated we cannot expect a human person to be as precise to select exactly the point where he wants to draw that s why the Draw Core has a Connect Point Core in order to facilitate that task It catches the point where the user touched the screen or stopped touching the screen and begins to search from all the entities that already exist in the system if there is one point near to connect them This tolerance distance is set up as 20 pixels radius away Image 3 42 Area of tolerance to connect Image 3 43 Line after connecting point points For the moment the system works out with the opposite points of the wall but it is not capable to detect the points between them So drawing a wall intersecting another wall will cause that wall to trespass the second one There is no sequence diagram for this because it s an internal process transparent to the user 45 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 11 Vector mode This is another feature in order to help the user to draw maps until now we have seen that the user can draw strai
28. be improved much further See the section of 7 Possible improvements and upgrades for further reference Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 3 Scope and used methodology As to develop this project it has been required to do a planning of the several tasks to be performed into independent entities Gantt diagram This project is based on the learning and investigation required to acquire the appropriate knowledge alongside with the competences learned through the career have to made it viable Once the sufficient knowledge is learned and a necessity study has been made functional and non functional prerequisites is when shall begin the specification and design phase of the system This system will have several components that will interact between them like the camera of the smartphone or the SQLite Database Finally we will begin the implementation phase which will end into the testing phase During the development through all these phases the documentation of the project will be performed SO we can join all these tasks of work into each one of the phases that we already commented resulting into the following 5 main phases Investigation and Learning Specification and Design Implementation Testing Documentation of the project ues codec The project follows a chronologic time lapse trying to adapt itself into the classic design progress but with backward jumps to input new information prototype
29. button to enter into the scroll Mode now you can touch the screen and scroll the map to see all of its contents Press again the Scroll button to leave from this mode Image 1 5 Option menu Scroll Image 1 6 Scrolling map Architect Support Tool User Manual 1 1 3 Saving AZ Fill Architect Support Tool Press the Save button to save your current map 1 1 4 Loading notru Press the Load button to load any previously saved map HOUSE ID 1 HOUSE ID 2 HOUSE ID 3 HOUSE ID 4 1 1 5 Create new map Image 1 7 Save Option HOUSE ID 5 Press the New button to create a new blank map Image 1 8 Load Option 1 1 6 Erasing walls Press the Erase button to enter into the erase Mode in this mode any wall you touch will be deleted Press the Erase button again to leave from this mode 19 14 qx 19 15 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Image 1 9 Mistakenly placed wall Image 1 10 Wall being erased Architect Support Tool User Manual 1 1 7 Vector mode Press the Vector button to enter into vector Mode drawing In this mode you can only draw walls at 0 90 180 and 270 degrees Use it in order to draw faster precisely maps Press the Vector button again to leave from this mode 19 38 1 1 8 Door Input Architect Support Tool Press the Door button to draw doors in the map This will allow you to remove small portions of wa
30. ees 20 IMAGE 2 3 USE CASE DIAGRAM OF THE CHECKLIST CORE ccccseccesccecccsccsccuccesccucceuccescesccusceuscenseuscescenceuss 21 IMAGE 2 4 USE CASE DIAGRAM OF THE PERSISTENT CORE ccccceccscccecccsccusceuccesccccesccesceuccuscesscenssusseuscenceuss 23 IMAGE 2 5 3 1 ARCHITECTONIC 24 IMAGE 2 6 UML CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL OF LAYER PRESENTATION csccseccssccscccsccscesscesccescesscescesceuss 25 IMAGE 2 7 UML CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL DRAW CORE DOMAIN LAYER ccm eene 26 IMAGE 2 8 UML CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL OF PATHOLOGY CORE DOMAIN LAYER ccrte 2 IMAGE 2 9 UML CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL OF CHECKLIST CORE DOMAIN LAYER ccrte 27 IMAGE 2 10 UML CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL PERSISTENCE LAYER cene emen hehehe nenne 28 IMAGE 5 T3MEBNUSCBEEN oi t a Pc I MD IRE TI CM EE 29 IMAGE 322 S DOR DRAW BUTION ecco als crete E LL Da II DP DE M I E DNE LL CURE TU 30 IMAGES SDIOPDEAWIB OEEION nau cM s eL LUE det 30 IMAGE 3 4 DRAWING SCREEN cM a UE M LM De EE IU reu ree 30 IMACES OP TION MENU 30 IMAGES SOP TION
31. entity description and damage e newtable3 Responsible to store the save temporal file just one entry newtable4 Responsible to store the checklist information 1 ID field for current map and the other 7 extra fields representing the elements to be checked We are sorry for having these names as we didn t have time to change them and test it properly so we prefer not to touch them Obviously in future stages they would be changed into something more describing of what is their purpose This is the code used to ceate this tables in the DataManipulator class public void onCreate SQLiteDatabase db db execSQL CREATE TABLE TABLE NAME id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY data BLOB db execSQL CREATE TABLE TABLE NAME2 id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY houseid INTEGER entityID TINYINT UNSIGNED description VARCHAR damage VARCHAR db execSQL CREATE TABLE TABLE NAME3 id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY data BLOB db execSQL CREATE TABLE TABLE NAME4 id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY houseid INTEGER dimensions TINYINT UNSIGNED ventilation TINYINT UNSIGNED windows TINYINT UNSIGNED smokepipe TINYINT UNSIGNED gaspipe TINYINT UNSIGNED lights TINYINT UNSIGNED plugs TINYINT UNSIGNED Code 3 VI Table stuctures of our SQLite database 62 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 4 Testing and performance Unfortunately we didn t have time to test this application extensively outside of it
32. involved user Draw 1 Home Button 11 Show Option 1 2 Daor Made 1 3 Door 2 Home Button Image 3 74 SD of Vector mode 3 2 14 Checklist This feature allows the user to check a list of elements that the flat should have The user can check those elements for information purposes or try to fill in the new information It consists of a list of elements where the user can check or uncheck what he feels is being complied with the quality standards or not As basic as this list is for this prototype stage they are probably the most important to check the current elements to check is as follows e Dimensions If checked means that the flat has a proportionate size and addeuqate for its purpose it s not the same a flat for a living than an study flat e Ventilation If checked means that the flat has enough exhaust ventilations e Windows If checked means that the flat has all its windows in good condition and are sufficient for the flat Smoke Pipe If checked the smoke pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Gas Pipe lf checked the gas pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Lights If checked the flat has enough lights to make it a comfortable place through all the room e Plugs If checked the flat has enough plugs connections through all the rooms 55 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Y 19 59 Architect Support Tool Vector
33. length angle byte id mapCoordinates cellx celly Gather entity information final DrawEntity oDrawn getEntity id 10 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects pStart oDrawn GetStartPoint pEnd oDrawn GetEndPoint length oDrawn GetLength angle oDrawn GetAngle Create popup window LayoutInflater layoutInflater LayoutInflater getBaseContext getSystemService LAYOUT INFLATER SERVICE View popupView layoutInflater inflate R layout popup null final PopupWindow popupWindow new PopupWindow popupView LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT true declaration of buttons and its listeners This launches the camera application camButton setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener public void onClick View v dispatchTakePictureIntent ACTION TAKE PHOTO oDrawn id oDrawn SetPictures true repaint oDrawn oDrawn GetLength Length We This opens the Gallery Window galButton setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener public void onClick View v Intent loadGallery new Intent com pwroc ArchTool BROWSERGALLERY loadGallery putExtra houseID loadGallery putExtra entityID oDrawn id startActivity loadGallery 195 This is the Ok button to save changes Button btnOk Button popupView findViewById R id btnOR btnOk setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener public void onClick V
34. that surrounds Android Operative System and second had an Android smartphone and could not afford to buy another smartphone being said that am not closing the possibility to develop it for other devices and OS Operative System s in the future if it is needed But for the moment and for starters like me in this Android world this would be good enough Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 2 Project goals Good we have a necessity to fulfil and motivation to develop but now the first problem encountered was that did not have previous knowledge of Android so taking into consideration that here are the goals of this project 1 Learn Android language and be proficient developing for it 2 Develop a useful tool for architects that allow them to at least represent maps and introduce information 3 Start a prototype which may be expanded in the future In order to fulfil this the minimum application s requirements in order to be useful should be as follows Ability to represent maps Ability to annex photos into sections of these maps Ability to save and load these maps Ability to write descriptions of the pathologies encountered Ability to check a list of requirements of these maps Ability to use this application on smartphone or tablet pc through touch screen OS NS These have been the goals that manage to accomplish to a certain degree but this project has so much potential that it can
35. too Icon doors instead of the actual system of deleting pieces of a line it should be like dragging and dropping a door icon into the wall This is difficult because it needs logic in order to intersect the wall and put the corrected orientation of the door Ability to draw circles or ellipses for columns A bit difficult it needs some thinking process but at least the entity class is already created to store it Upgrade the checklist window with much more detail perhaps even flexible for the architect to desire In the future there should be like an overall checklist of the flat and then another independent checklist for each room This is difficult to do it needs a designing process A third option on the menu screen to read some local laws as what a property should accomplish Not difficult but tedious it needs investigation of the current laws of the selected country Improve the drawing method for example the connecting points core should be also to detect when a line is crossing another line and so cut it and connect them challenging but reasonable to implement with some time There may be a major problem depending on the solution the performance could be severely affected as to try to guess all the points of the current lines An Undo option to undo whatever have been drawn previously it will improve the usability of the application Export option to Cad this would be really useful for architects but it is also the most di
36. 14 2 1 1 6 Ability to check a list of elements of occupancy 14 2 1 2 INOMTUNCHONALTCQUITCINCINS Dey vus d Ye v eae thu aM epa oa edid 14 2 1 2 1 User miertace and H lTiarr uoi ee acoso a eee eb aane dee ia Dena ER 14 2 1 2 2 wie rc en oe cate mieten ee arte 14 2 1 2 3 excel 14 2 1 2 4 MaintenaN CG a EST 15 2 1 2 5 AB SINE ERNEUT NCC ESPERE 15 2 1 2 6 Environment development and 15 2 1 3 Typical course of events from use cases 16 2181 BUE MTM RET T 16 2 1 3 2 miae dela pe ce 18 2133 CHECKS ONS eT TP 21 2 1 3 4 CONC P 22 2 2 PROBLEM SPECIFICATION PU 24 2 2 1 Conceptual data model 25 2 2 1 1 Pr sentation laye ennei m 25 2 2 1 2 Eee a E 26 20 91 26 2022 WramOlOGy COG anaa 27 2 2129 CHECKS LOOC eum des ipae Rise evi eo oe on 27 2 2 1 3 Persistence lAV EN E M 28 2 3 OTHER SOLUTIONS DESCRIPTION COMMERCIAL
37. AST can help you As an architect involved with building maintenance it is usual to enter in buildings to do inspections and then create reports about their status The way this is being done is using a scientific method to do a visual inspection and take notes and photos and fast drawings of the building and its problems So in the end the architect ends up being some kind of Christmas tree with the camera on one hand the notebook yes one of those made of paper few pencils and pens at hands and pockets a torch a tape measure and a laser meter So this application for a cellphone with a good camera capable of doing everything an architect do with pencils and paper will be of a great help in many ways It will be a simplification of the working time because with a couple of tools the architect will be capable to do his work Moreover it will be a way to win time because the information is clearly clean and in order And we hope AST will manage to accomplish this goal though for the moment is just a prototype 1 2 3 4 1 1 CP TIONS MIEN M SS CR DEPO DELE Ep E2280 7 077041 20 HO SNMP dus cz c 1 2 PATHOLOGY SCRE E m O S D m D S CLEAR DATA REAL CASE SCENARIOS i iris EE EE EIER IEEE
38. D OF VECTOR MODE OPTION MENU CHECKLIST CHECKLIST SCREEN ACCEPTING CHANGES SD OF CHECKLIST SCREEN CLEAR DATA BUTTON 10 Annex B Code index CODE Sal SAVEOBIBCPCDBASS sisi he itn aM CH eT E ons ESQ E ina rA CODE 3 SAVING A MAP ODE ELE SAVING A PATHOEOGO Ys etse eet ptam leat ste desde dd euin CODES IV SAVING TEMPORARY MAD aee deus sles rone ceo duis esee Pa CODE 3 V SAVING CHECKLIST OF CURRENT MADP cccccececescccecececcccececcceccscececseseecececesescsceseceseecesecesaseecececasess CODE 3 V INSERTCHECKLIST FROM DATAMANIPULATOR CLASS CODE 3 VI TABLE STUCTURES OF OUR SQLITE DATABASE uus Development of a software tool to support architects Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 11 Bibliography and references Official Android developer page http developer android com index html Stack Overflow http stackoverflow com Android Forums http androidforums com Android amp Eclipse tutorials on youtube http www youtube com AutoCad Wikipedia Foundations http en wikipedia org wiki AutoCAD OrthoGraph for iPad http Awww orthograph net orthograph architect ipad html 34 uuum 6
39. Draw Button Image 3 3 SD of Draw Button 3 2 2 Drawing screen This is the drawing screen in this example we are already seeing a drawing map that s because the system will load the last previous map if there is no previously saved map in the system then there will be no map drawn in the screen Scroll Select Image 3 4 Drawing screen Image 3 5 Option menu We can see here how the user push the home button of the smartphone causing this option menu to appear from the bottom of the screen 30 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Vector Scroll Door CheckList Image 3 6 Option menu Image 3 7 Option extended menu If the screen is too small to show all the options it will give the option to touch an special button called More depending on the Android native language in this picture is Spanish language Mas which will result into an extended list of options that couldn t be displayed before Sequence diagram involved user Draw n IREE EREN 1 1 Show Options Menu Option 1 2 Show Options Menu 2 Home Button Image 3 8 SD of Option menu 31 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 3 Entity screen Let s going to describe this screen with a practical example let s say that the user have found a pathology in this encircled wall 18 59 19 00 Architect Support Architect Support Tool Scr
40. Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects This information is stored in the third table of the database called newtable3 Thanks to this implementation it allows the user to recover the last working map even if he exited from the program 3 3 4 Save checklist scenario All maps have a checklist if this does not exist the checklist will appear with all its elements unchecked but at the first time that the user saves any changes as pushing the button Ok on the checklist screen then it will save the relevant information into the database The relevant information to store is just the boolean values of all the fields if they are checked or not For SQLite limitation which does not allow to store booleans we just store integer values being 0 false and 1 true This is how from the CheckList class is called and passed the arguments to the DataManipulator class btnCheckOk setOnClickListener new Button OnClickListener public void onClick View v List Integer list new ArrayList lt Integer gt byte val1 byte dimensions isChecked 1 byte val2 byte ventilation isChecked 1 0 byte val3 byte windows isChecked 1 byte val4 byte smokepipe isChecked 1 byte val5 byte gaspipe isChecked 1 byte val6 byte lights isChecked 1 0 byte val7 byte plugs isChecked 1 DataManipulator dh new DataManipulator getBaseContext li
41. Responsible to create a new Draw class e Select Responsible to detect the entities drawn walls e Vector A helpful mode for the user to draw maps which only allows the user to draw Straight lines e Erase Responsible for deleting the entity selected e Door Responsible for drawing doors in the map e Scroll Responsible to change the current view of the map 96 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 1 2 2 Pathology Core Camera t makes reques i H Draw selects Entity 1 1 Picture 1 1 opens has i Gallery Description Affected element Image 2 8 UML conceptual data model of Pathology Core Domain Layer We already explained about the Draw class before it is here to note where the Pathology Core begins In Draw class the user selects and entity so the class itself communicates with the Entity class Here is the description of the new classes e Entity Responsible to show all the important data from the selected entity e Camera This one is not a class of our application is external but needed in order to take a picture e Picture The photo itself e Gallery Class responsible to show all the pictures related to this entity and to show the description and elements affected by this pathology 2 2 1 2 3 Checklist Core H Draw Has H Checklist 1 1 Image 2 9 UML conceptual data model of Checklist Core Domain Layer This core is quite simple as it is now b
42. TE canvas drawBitmap mBitmap src dst mBitmapPaint Code 2 3 OnDraw method responsible to update the content of the screen We are drawing into the current canvas the generated Bitmap that the user has drawn previously the arguments src dst are used for the scrolling and mBltmapPaint is just the color configuration of our canvas We omitted all the previous logic needed to calculate src and dst And also we need to capture various events when the user touches the screen when the user is drawing on the screen and when the user stops touching the screen Each one of them is linked to a specified function responsible to capture these events and act accordingly called touch start touch move and touch up JOverride public boolean onTouchEvent MotionEvent event Switch event getAction case MotionEvent ACTION_DOWN if scrollMode fEndX fStartX touchX fEndY fStartY touchY else offsetX 0 offsetY 0 touch start touchX touchY invalidate break case MotionEvent ACTION_MOVE touch move touchX touchy invalidate break case MotionEvent ACTION UP if scrollMode amp amp deleteMode amp amp selectMode if doorMode see Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects touch up door else touch up invalidate break return true Code 2 4 Managing the input events of the user when drawing As
43. Use case Draw a door Actors Simple user starter Description Represent a door into the map Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions System s answer 1 User wants to represent a door 2 User touches the Door option es Po 8 The system activates the door mode wall where he wants to put a door eres and begin to delete any drawing behind it 6 User can move its finger through the screen in order to increase decrease the size of the door 7 The system catches this finger s movement and represents It into the map 8 User stops touching the sereen O 9 The system stops deleting the drawing behind he fingers user and makes oersistent the new resulted map Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case There is no other alternative course for this use case if the user made a mistake he will need to draw again that wall or load the map again 247 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects User Draw a wall Delete a wall Create new map Draw door Image 2 1 Use case diagram of the Draw Core 2 1 3 2 Pathology Core This feature will be responsible to allow the user to input and retrieve pathologies that he may encounter during his analysis of the property Its main goal is to launch the camera application of the smartphone take a picture and insert it into the map and the desired poi
44. a ko Department Systemy multimedialne mobilne Date 24 of September 2012 1 PREPARATION T 1 1 1 PROJECT GOALS issu epu a M P EM M 2 1 2 ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION aut Su UNS PHROGRBAMMINQG FERFEBYs EISE Agree YN FUP sey RESEE VERS EE FPE EREAERVEMREEVEV REIR ERES 4 2 1 MAIN AND MENU CLASS RETE NEM 4 2 2 DRAN A a 5 2 3 DRAWENTITY CO ET 8 2 4 OBJECT CIAS ner TT sg 2 5 DATAMANIPULATOR GLASS ui benc sg 2 6 INSERTING PATHOLOGIES tu eee p eR M E s 10 DESCRIP E EE N E E 13 3 1 DRAWING SCREEN RUE n 13 3 2 ENTITY SCREEN Sees ettet estt teresa EE dett teat Een dA LAS 14 3 3 GALLERY SCREEN E E E S anu 15 3 4 ROLUN e ME MM MM E 16 3 5 SAVING CTT OT tee nT Sey TOY ETT ONE Cee eT 16 3 6 AIDINIG 16 3 7 CREATEANEW EET 17 3 8 ERA OE AWA Bl eee 17 3 9 CONNECTING POINTS CORE
45. a a en saa eas 6 1 3 SCOPE AND USED METHODOLOGY 7 Vid iioii iedo iier em 7 1 4 ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION minia tes etu uei take 9 WAST SECIS PET 9 142 SOnV ENCSSON XDeN aX MIN eee ee 9 148 SADGFOIO 2 TEARIGWOER eit O E puo I TO Uter des 10 1 5 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTUAL SITUATION Meta 11 1 6 DISADVANTAGES ROOM FOR 11 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTUAL 12 2 1 REQUIREMENT 9 12 E M x sd LN AE 12 2 1 1 1 Ability to use this application wherever as 10 13 2 1 1 2 Ability to represent 13 2 1 1 3 Ability to include and take photos sees 13 2 1 1 4 Ability to save and load the data 18 2 1 1 5 Ability TO OMS s io coria ceed neue set de sree x et reas adno suu as d
46. alternative courses of the use case If the user does not want to make any changes it only needs to push the back button instead of Ok button User Check the list of elements Image 2 3 Use case diagram of the Checklist Core 942 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 3 4 Persistent Core This feature will be responsible to allow the user to save or retrieve the data from the system Mainly the maps that have been created Use case Save current map Actors Simple user starter system Description Save all relevant data of the current map Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions System s answer 1 User wants to save the current map 2 User touches the Save option 3 The system saves all data related to this current map If it already existed before will replace it for this new one if it didn t exist before it will create all the data structure to make it possible Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case No enough space storage or no SD card inserted will throw exceptions user will be expected to solve these problems at this prototype stage Use case Retrieve a previously saved map Actors Simple user starter system Description Load the selected map previously saved Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions system s answer 1 User wants to load a previous map
47. at the wall was being painted from left to right so what we need is to redraw the wall from right to left to effectively use the angle option 19 24 qf LE 19 25 e Si ioe Architect Sup port Tool Architect Sup port Tool zi dl Image 3 55 Erasing wall Image 3 56 Repainting wall We have deleted the wall and redraw it from right to left and now we will change its angle The explanation as to why this wall is being inclined it s because even though we are on vector mode and this shouldn t happen the connect points core is always active and is detecting that there is some near point around there preventing us to actually draw an straight line at 270 degrees It s not a problem because we can fix it 49 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Image 3 57 Fixing angle Image 3 58 New angle at 1802 We could see that it had 175 so we will change it for 180 and accept the changes and so this is the result that we desired 19 26 Architect Support Tool Image 3 59 New wall Now let s say that our architect has realized that he actually didn t want to make one wall but two walls dividing that room in two rooms There are several ways to accomplish this but we are going to explain how to do it manually through the Length parameter of the entity window 50 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects
48. ation that could be launched through a mobile device like a smartphone or a tablet pc and could assist them in this work thought it was an interesting concept to further develop so when finally got my change to do it proposed it here in Wroctaw And am happy that my tutor found tt interesting too is no secret that an application like this though small merges several areas of informatics like graphical design graphical interface user interaction and databases And finally it is based from a real necessity which encourages doing its development As up today there are no significant applications on the market decided to try to do it by myself and this is the result After some deliberation intended for this application to be for Android systems the reason 15 quite simple first really like the Open Source environment that surrounds Android Operative System and second had an Android smartphone and could not afford to buy another smartphone being said that am not closing the possibility to develop it for other devices and OS Operative System s in the future if it is needed But for the moment and for starters like me in this Android world this would be good enough First thing to notice in the world of architects is that there are several roles in their work for example e Valuer One who is responsible to evaluate properties and give an approximate price e Issuer of occupancy One who is responsible to evalua
49. ccessed through the folder icon in the Entity screen The user can navigate through all the pictures pathologies that the selected wall has And he can write a description to it 19 04 19 05 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Description x Se ey Image 3 7 Gallery window Description ag JR E gt 1 Image 3 8 Navigating between photos 19 10 Architect Support Tool Description Water leakage on the wall owner says It began last week after heavy rain Probably it comes from the roof Elements affected Wall wallpaper roof too probably Image 3 9 Gallery introducing info When the user inserted all the desired information he only needs to push the Ok button to save it If he does not want to save it then he needs to push the back button s 5 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 4 Scrolling After when the user selects the Scroll button in the option menu he will be on Scroll Mode now he can touch the screen and move his finger in order to move the map with its movement at the desired place When he will finish he will need to push the scroll button option again to leave from the Scroll Mode 19 47 4E 19 11 Architect Support Tool Architect SupportTool Select Image 3 10 Option menu Scroll Image 3 11 Scrolling map DY 20 11 3 5 Sa ving Architect Support Tool The save option is acce
50. d entityid description damage values houseid entityid description damage this insertStmt DataManipulator db compileStatement INSERT pathology return this insertStmt executeInsert Code 3 11 Saving a pathology This data is stored into the second table of the database called newtable2 3 3 3 Save temporary scenario When we were in the implementation phase we encountered some problems as the when the application itself was being pushed out of the memory or in the background in order to let pass another application in Android systems Everytime that happened specially when launching the camera when the application returned back in front there were some data lost In order to circumvent this issue we implemented a save temporal option that is called when the application lose its focus when that happens all Android applications has a lifecycle and it s enough to know that the onDestroy callback it s used We override that callback in order to save a temporary file so when it gets back it will load the temporary file if exists Here is the simple code from Draw java Override public void onDestroy super onDestroy saveTmp Code 3 IV Saving temporary map The function saveTmp is almost identical as save just with minor tweaks also it calls from the DataManipulator class another simple version of Insert or update call to the SQLite database 60
51. dX fEndY private short length 0 private short angle 0 boolean pictures false Code 2 8 DrawEntity Class definition We omitted all the getters and setters And so finally we are ready to speak what is the relevant information that defines a map e Current drawn mBitmap holds the drawn map e The Data array mapCoordinates responsible to divide the map in sections and label them depending if on these sections there is an entity or not e he Data array aEntities responsible to store all entities in the map The ID of the current map e he pictures captured from camera application and linked to entities mapCoordinates is used to know if the user selects a wall or deletes it For the pictures as they are already saved into the SD card as per the Camera application works we only need the name of the picture so a string will be enough The first point the Bitmap is stored in the SD aswell using the ID of the current map for later locate it The rest of this information is stored into an object class called saveObject Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 4 saveObject Class This class holds the relevant data to be saved into our SQLite database public class saveObject implements Serializable public byte mapCoordinates public ArrayList lt DrawEntity gt aEntities new ArrayList lt DrawEntity gt public int Id public String bitmapFlnm Code 2 9 saveObject Class defin
52. data of the application _ 18 59 Architect Support Tool Clear Data Image 3 1 Menu screen of AST 3 1 Drawing screen This is the drawing screen and the option menu to select all the options of the application La _ 18 59 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Scroll Select Image 3 2 Drawing screen Image 3 3 Option menu 2 T5 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 Entity screen The entity window is a popup window that appears after selecting a wall through the option menu Select Let s say that the user have found a pathology in this encircled wall i 18 59 Architect Support Tool Image 3 4 Wall that the user selects Image 3 5 Popup entity window We take notice of the camera icon it will allow the user to take a picture of the pathology using the internal camera and save it into this wall The parameters Length and Angle can be modified by the user to meet new criteria and the system will redraw the new wall as the desired result After the user has made a picture the resulting map will be displayed like this note the change of colour of the wall red means no pathology inserted black means that wall has a pathology 19 03 Architect Sup port Tool Image 3 6 Black wall after inserting pathology s Ax Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 3 Gallery screen This screen is a
53. e Menu Option Scroll Menu Option Save Menu Option Load Menu Option New Improvement Connect points Core Camera Interaction Gallery Module Menu Option Door Pathology Module Checklist Module End of Implementation 4 Testing Fixing code Preliminary documentation 5 Final Thesis Memory START 1 07 12 3 07 12 7 07 12 11 07 12 16 07 12 18 07 12 20 07 12 23 07 12 29 07 12 31 07 12 3 08 12 1 06 12 1 09 12 1 09 12 1 03 12 24 03 12 END 2 07 12 6 07 12 10 07 12 15 07 12 17 07 12 19 07 12 22 07 12 28 07 12 30 07 12 2 08 12 4 08 12 5 08 12 16 09 12 16 09 12 24 09 12 28 09 12 1 4 Environment description The environment in which this project has been developed 15 as follows Eclipse e Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini e Android 2 1 Framework In the following sections we are going to comment why we used each of these technologies and which relation they have with the project 1 4 1 Eclipse There are several software development environment and there is no particular reason to choose Eclipse over another one just that it is perhaps one of the most used for programming Android so that s why we choose it too in order to follow the general trend So if sometimes one have to look for information on Internet it will be more easy to find as being more popular The time in this project it has been critical factor so there were not time to lose trying to figure out which version would be best for de
54. e line mCanvas drawLine fStartX fStartY x y mPaint Update global variables fEndX X Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects fbEndY y iEndX int x int Code 2 6 Touch_move function when drawing a line It is reading the new point where the user is touching and draws a line into that point but every time it destroys that line through the use of the bitmap copy The original one that we copied in the Touch start function so creating the illusion that the user is just drawing shadow of a line The final line will be drawn when the user will stop touching the screen in the touch up function as follows PointF fEndP new PointF fEndX fEndY Point iEndP new Point iEndX iEndY Delete any action from move event mBitmap mBitmap2 copy mBitmap2 getConfig true mCanvas setBitmap mBitmap float distx Math abs fEndP x fStartX float disty Math abs fEndP y fStartY double dist Math sqrt distx distx disty disty Do not draw too small lines if dist 20 mPath reset return Connect end Point with current existing points if possible PointF newPointF computeTolerance iEndP if newPointF null fEndX newPointF x fEndY newPointF y fEndP new PointF fEndX fEndY Mark all the coordinates of the points of the entity being drawn byte entityId findAvailableEntityID byte entityCoord
55. e new wall as the desired result This ensures more flexibility of the drawing capabilities of the application After the user has made a picture the resulting map will be displayed like this note the change of colour of the wall red means no pathology inserted black means that wall has pathology Image 3 12 Black wall after inserting pathology And so now we can appreciate just by looking that this flat at least has two pathologies encountered at the black walls 33 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved Draw 11 Select option 7 gt Option 1 3 Shaw entity selected screen T Entiby s 14 1 Take picture Camera 1 4 3 Redraw wall Image 3 13 SD of Option menu 3 2 4 Gallery screen Now let s make the assumption that the user wishes to see the pictures taken with the camera of a pathology and or wants to put relevant information into it in order to do so he needs to do the same steps in the previous section That is open the Entity window of a wall that is painted in black which means it has an inserted pathology Image 3 14 Gallery icon in entity window 34 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects The user then will touch the gallery icon on the top and right corner a red cross is pointing into it in order to open the Gallery window 19 04 Architec
56. e tool to support architects entityid List lt String gt list new ArrayList lt String gt Cursor cursor db rawQuery sql new String Integer toString houseid Integer toString entityid if cursor moveToFirst do String description cursor getString 3 String damage cursor getString 4 list add description list add damage while cursor moveToNext return list ic void close db close private static class OpenHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper OpenHelper Context context super context DATABASE NAME null DATABASE VERSION Override public void onCreate SQLiteDatabase db db execSQL CREATE TABLE TABLE id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY data BLOB 9 Code 2 10 DataManipulator Class responsible to communicate with the SQLite Database With this we can save and load for the load we just need to create a screen with the list of the saved maps 2 6 Inserting Pathologies At this point the next step was to take pictures and link them to the walls in order to do that we created a mode called select mode this logic is in the touch_start function and what it does is to check if the user has touched an entity thanks to mapCoordinates we know about that And then create a popup window with the information of that wall else if selectMode if mapCoordinates cellx celly gt 0 final PointF pStart pEnd int
57. eady working sj Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 2 4 Maintenance The solution has to be maintainable as it will be extended so far this is fulfilled because it s not that big enough for the moment so it has been coded using a Facade pattern 2 1 2 5 Others We did not speak about security and stability and that s because as it is a prototype unfortunately these two characteristics have been left a unattended If the user wants to put input that it is not expected the application more than probably will crash This needs further refinement but it was the least of the worries because we are dealing with architects which will try to use this application accordingly and as intended and not trying to do some weird behaviours like a regular user would do And as for the security there is non because there is no possible data corruption for the user or possible leakage of data as far as maps is concerned So the security level is predetermined of the Android device for which will work on if it is infected by a virus we cannot do nothing against it 2 1 2 6 Environment development and platform The solution will work on Android systems from version 2 1 up until the newest one this is intended for trying to please the maximum number of users As for today android 2 1 is the third most popular android version being 4 03 the second and 2 3 the first The environment development is effective as simp
58. ements of these maps Ability to use this application on smartphone or tablet pc through touch screen p usps These have been the goals that manage to accomplish to a certain degree but this project has so much potential that it can be improved much further Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 2 Environment description The environment in which this project has been developed 15 as follows Eclipse e Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini with Android version 2 3 Android 2 1 Framework First there is no particular reason to choose Eclipse over another development software just that it is perhaps one of the most used for programming Android so that s why we choose it too in order to follow the general trend So if sometimes one have to look for information on Internet it will be easier to find as being more popular The time in this project has been a critical factor so there was no time to lose trying to figure out which software would be the best but just to be practical oecond the reasons for using the smartphone Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini are two first it was the system usually have at my disposal to test everything and second this is one of the smallest smartphone on the market so if my application can work in this small smartphone its guaranteed it will work much better on a bigger resolution screen of a bigger smartphone Just to be sure we used emulators for testing this application on o
59. er does not like the represented wall or wants to change it he can use another use case to change its representation or delete it Use case Delete a wall Actors Simple user starter Description Delete the selected wall from an existing map Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions System s answer 1 User wants to delete a wall 2 User touches the Erase option 3 The system activates the erase mode 4 User touches the wall to be erased 5 The system detects which wall has to be deleted and remove its existence from the system 24162 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case There 15 no other alternative course for this use case if the user made mistake he will need to draw again that wall using the previous use case Use case Create a new map Actors Simple user starter Description Create a new blank map with no walls painted on it Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes 1 User wants to create a new map ___ 2 User touches the New option The system deletes everything previously shown on the screen and creates a new empty map Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case There is no other alternative course for this use case if the user made a mistake he will lose all non saved information from previous map
60. fficult to do in my opinion One needs to know how Cad works internally and as far as know it s a proprietary system so a lot of investigation should be required to make it compatible Improve the databases and stability of the system As one can see there are a lot of room for improvement some of this can be difficult but almost all of them can be achieved with reasonable time improving the application much more 67 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 8 Conclusions This project is quite ambitious from the beginning it s clear that there is an empty Space in the market to cover this necessity from architects but to develop this application has been really challenging for me as it was my first time developing for an smartphone in this case for Android systems and also living outside my country That caused serious problems during the implementation phase as didn t have enough knowledge and still don t think that am good enough on it but so far the knowledge that have learnt regarding that is invaluable and indisputable A kind of knowledge that will be useful for my future and probably for the future of the informatics as the trending is to have more embedded systems in small devices Being said that this application is not trying to substitute any previous routine that architects has for lack of time it couldn t be finished as think it should be in order be completely usable
61. ght lines with free angle they can be 15 degrees 25 degrees whatever as long the finger is moving through the screen Sometimes this is impractical if one wants to draw rooms and flats in a faster way The Vector mode enables the user to only draw straight lines at 0 90 180 and 270 as this application is not intended for the moment at this current prototype stage to be a realistic representation of the world but instead a support tool we think the vector mode will cover the needs of drawing rooms and flats most of time Door CheckList Image 3 44 Activating Vector Mode As usual this option is enabled through the option menu and in order to deactivate it one has to touch it again Image 3 45 Wall at 270 Image 3 46 Wall at 0 46 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Image 3 47 Wall at 90 Image 3 48 Wall at 180 We have here what is represented on the screen when the user touches the screen but maintains the touching and moves his finger around the screen all the time the wall is represented into one of x or y axis When the user will release the touching of the screen the last motion of wall will be finally drawn Sequence diagram involved user Draw 1 Button 11 Show 1 2 Vector Mode 1 3 Vector Mode 2 Home Button Image 3 49 SD of Vector mode 3 2 12 Practical example We almost explained all the features expec
62. iew v if saveLength saveAngle int iLength 0 int iAngle 0 The user has modified the angle if saveAngle try iAngle Integer parselInt editAngle getText toString catch NumberFormatException nfe System out println Could not parse nfe repaint oDrawn iAngle Angle oDrawn SetAngle iAngle saveAngle false The user has modified the length if saveLength try iLength Integer parselInt editLength getText toString catch NumberFormatException nfe 2442 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects System out println Could not parse nfe repaint oDrawn iLength Length oDrawn SetLength iLength savelength false Update MapCoordinates with the new changes byte entityCoordinates PointF pStartTmp oDrawn GetStartPoint PointF newpEnd oDrawn GetEndPoint entityCoordinates calcMapCoordinates int pStartTmp x int pStartTmp y int newpEnd x int newpEnd y oDrawn id updateMapCoordinates entityCoordinates oDrawn id Code 2 11 Logic of selecting a wall and changing its attributes We have lots of thins happening in this window for one side the user can change the length and angle of the wall so it needs to be repainted again with the new attributes That s the purpose of repaint function on this code snippet Later camButton launches the camera application to take a picture and ga
63. ility to save and load the data Ability to write descriptions Ability to check a list of elements for occupancy ee Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 1 1 Ability to use this application wherever as possible One of the main goals is to help as many architects as we can so the solution has to be intended for as many devices as possible Also these devices have to be as popular enough as possible With these premises the most extended portable device would be the regular cell phone but it is instantly discarded because there are not cell phones with touch screen capability One critical point needed for interaction with this application So the next popular devices are smartphones In this category we have two major OS in the market Android from Google and iOS from Apple the best solution would be for both of them but as we do not have time nor resourced to do development for both devices at the same time we will focus on Android devices Alternative Instead we could use tablet pc s this would be an interesting alternative because tablet pc s have higher screen size and are portable only problem they are not as common as smartphones so that s why we chose to use smartphone Anyway this is not a problem at this stage because the application can be easily ported to table pc in the future if needed 2 1 1 2 Ability to represent maps As we stated on the chapter 7 5 Description of the actual si
64. inates new byte MAP_RESOLUTION MAP_RESOLUTION entityCoordinates calcMapCoordinates int fStartX int fStartY iEndX iEndY entityId updateMapCoordinates entityCoordinates entityId Create entity object DrawEntity oDrawn new DrawEntity entityId PointF fStartP new PointF fStartX fStartY int length computeDistance fStartP fEndP oDrawn SetStartPoint fStartP x fStartP y oDrawn SetEndPoint fEndX fEndY oDrawn SetLength length int angle computeAngle fStartP fEndP oDrawn SetAngle angle Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Add entity object to the list of entities aEntities add oDrawn mPath lineTo fEndX fEndY commit the path to our canvas mCanvas drawPath mPath mPaint mPath reset Code 2 7 Touch_up function finally drawing a wall We put comments on the code to explain what it does but at this point we have to explain our data structure that we are using to keep all the drawings and are mentioned in this code snippet We want to comment that what we call an Entity is a line being drawn into the map or a wall in the current state of the prototype in the future it could be a column or a door etc For that we created the DrawEntity Class 2 3 DrawEntity Class Is just a class that holds all the relevant information of a wall public class DrawEntity implements Serializable 6 public byte id private float fStartX fStartY fEn
65. irst prototype that can be fully expanded and test it is a good beginning sid Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 Description of the actual requirements After introducing the scope of this project soeaking about which tools we are going to use and for which purpose now we are going to show in this chapter the complete study of requirements that our solution will have to accomplish 2 1 Requirement analysis Any solution regardless of its kind has to discover and describe before starting to specify nothing which needs should be fulfilled These needs are what is called project s requirements and is the previous step before specifying in order to have a clear idea of what we want to do We will find requirements of 2 types e Functional requirements They are the inherent functionalities that the system will have to offer to the user for example show a map e Non functional requirements they are the requirements not related with user functionalities 2 1 1 Functional requirements The desired solution should be helpful and useful for architects being its strong point the availability to use it whenever it is needed without restrictions of hardware The bare minimum objectives to be useful for an architect are the followings already mentioned them on introduction chapter Ability to use this application wherever as possible Ability to represent maps Ability to take and include photos Ab
66. ith doors When the user checks the Door option menu he enters into the Door Mode In this mode he can draw white lines effectively removing the small sections where he touches with the movement of his finger These white lines does not generate any type of data they only modify the bitmap nothing else Using it in a smart way one can give the illusion of drawing entrances into each room or the flat itself as shown in the picture 3 22 The user is requested to touch again the Door option menu in order to leave out from this mode 3 12 Checklist This feature allows the user to check a list of elements that the flat should have The user can check those elements for information purposes or try to fill in the new information It consists of a list of elements where the user can check or uncheck what he feels is being complied with the quality standards of the flat or not As basic as this list is for this prototype stage they are probably the most important to check the current elements to check is as follows Dimensions If checked means that the flat has a proportionate and adequate size for its purpose it s not the same a flat for a living than an study flat Ventilation If checked means that the flat has enough exhaust ventilations 19 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects e Windows If checked means that the flat has all its windows in good condition and are sufficient for
67. ition This saveObject is serialized and then inserted into a SQL database when the user triggers the save option 2 5 DataManipulator Class This is the Database class that holds all the calls to communicate with the SQL database called DataManipulator class public class DataManipulator static final String TABLE NAME newtable Cv private static Context context static SQLiteDatabase db private SQLiteStatement insertStmt updateStmt private static final String INSERT values insert into TABLE NAME data private static final String UPDATE WHERE id UPDATE TABLE NAME SET data public DataManipulator Context context DataManipulator context context OpenHelper openHelper new OpenHelper DataManipulator context DataManipulator db openHelper getWritableDatabase public long insert byte object this insertStmt DataManipulator db compileStatement INSERT this insertStmt bindBlob 1 object return this insertStmt executeInsert Cas public long update int id object this updateStmt DataManipulator db compileStatement UPDATE this updateStmt bindDouble 2 id this updateStmt bindBlob 1 object return this updateStmt executeInsert 000 public List lt String gt selectPathology int houseid byte entityid String sql SELECT FROM TABLE NAME2 WHERE houseid AND Master Thesis Development of a softwar
68. lButton launches another window called BrowserGallery where the pictures of the wall has been stored and also it contains its description The class responsible of the BrowserGallery is called PicSelectActivity java At this point the basic things of the application were done but then we developed other functionalities as to help the user as e EraseMode Allows the user to delete a wall reusing the select logic we explained before ScrollMode Allows the user to scroll the map if it s too big to hold in the screen VectorMode It helps the user to draw maps restricting the drawing walls to be oriented into one axis s coordinates e DoorMode qw Allows the user to draw a sort of entrance for each room e CheckList Allows the user to input from a checklist the minimum requirements that the flat should comply And then we began with the testing phase during this process we manage to make really good improvements on memory efficiency by 50096 because at the beginning we were using data structures that were consuming too much resources Related of what things to store in the SQL database and the logic to detect and connect points when the user is drawing 12 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 Description We called our application Architect Support Tool AST and this is the main screen presented to the user where he can choose to Draw a map Load a previous saved map or Clear all the
69. le Eclipse framework with the option to run the Android emulator for several phones 235 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 3 Typical course of events from use cases These are the main use cases that our application has to achieve after our analysis of requirements 2 1 3 1 Draw Core This is the main feature of our application it allows the user to represent a property into a 2D surface through a touch screen The user will be required to draw on it and the application needs to detect this movement and represent it This functionality will offer various tools for the user in order to help him to draw as easy as possible Use case Draw a wall Actors Simple user starter Description Represent a wall into the system through the movement of the finger Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions System s answer 1 User wants to draw a wall 2 He touches the screen E 3 The system catches the touch point and begins to draw a line following the movement of the user s finger 4 User can see how his wall is being represented eventually he stops touching the screen finishing its drawing 5 The system detects the release of the touch screen from the user and makes persistent the representation of the wall through a line Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case There is no other course as for this use case If the us
70. lls like if you were using an eraser 1 1 9 Checklist Image 1 11 Flat with doors Press the Checklist button to see the list of elements this flat complies with You can verify all this qualities 223 LAN e Dimensions lf checked means the flat has uices peste a proportionate and adequate size for its AJimensiarns purpose e Ventilation If checked means that the flat Ventilation has enough exhaust ventilations e Windows If checked means that the flat Windows has all its windows in good condition and are sufficient for the flat EE Smoke Pipe e Smoke Pipe If checked the smoke pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Gas Pipe If checked the gas pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Lights If checked the flat has enough lights to make it a comfortable place through all the room e Plugs If checked the flat has enough plugs connections through all the rooms Gas Pipe Lights Plugs Image 1 12 Checklist window Architect Support Tool User Manual 1 2 Pathology screen Through the select screen point 1 1 1 press the folder icon to see the pathologies this wall has and insert modify or read its description and elements affected 19 04 Architect Support Tool 19 10 Architect Support Tool Water leakage the wall owner says It began last week after heavy rain Probably it comes from the roof Elements affected Description
71. lts but in the future it may be coded too for other environments Finally version 2 1 is old but it is still a quite distributed version between android users as there were no problems to make this application for that version it was a good idea to do it in order to maintain as much as possible the compatibility of older devices 11 Android version 2 1 is the third most used version as of today as of http developer android com about dashboards index html 10 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 5 Description of the actual situation First thing to notice in the world of architects is that there are several roles in their work for example e Valuer One who is responsible to evaluate properties and give an approximate price ssuer of occupancy One who is responsible to evaluate properties and issue the certificate of occupancy e Inspector One who is responsible to evaluate the legal conditions of the property e Interior designer One who tries to maximize or rearrange or decorate the available space inside of a property to meet the expectations of the customer All of them in order to do their job needs the representation of the property into a 2D representation sometimes in 3D usually called a map The most basic thing is to be able to have a map of the property from a point of view from above to bottom They usually perform this making photographs drawing in papers and sometime
72. ly quickly Bu 13333 Architect Support Tool Image 3 69 Correcting angle to 180 Image 3 70 New repainted wall And finally we have our room divided in two smaller rooms Following the same principles one can fix the entire map as much as he wants 53 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Image 3 71 Corrected map Now as to following the same scenario we need to put doors into this map that guides us into the next section 3 2 13 Door Input The ability to put doors is important to see where the entrances of the respective rooms are as this is a prototype there were no time to drag and drop a door icon so we used the ability to remove partially smaller sections of the walls CheckList Image 3 72 Option menu Door Image 3 73 Flat with doors When the user checks the Door option menu he enters into the Door Mode In this mode he can draw white lines effectively removing the small sections where he crosses 54 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects with the movement of his finger These white lines does not generate any type of data they only modify the bitmap nothing else Using it in an smart way one can give the illusion of drawing entrances into each room or he flat itself As the picture 3 73 is shown The user is requested to touch again the Door option menu in order to leave out from this mode Sequence diagram
73. make any sense if after saving the data we couldn t retrieve it so here is the load functionality of the application We have to note that the Load screen can be reached either by touching the Load button from the Menu screen or from the Option Menu of the Draw screen Ed 20 02 Architect Support Tool TP 19 49 Architect Support Tool Draw Scroll Select Clear Data Image 3 28 Load button Menu Screen Image 3 29 Load button Option menu When the user touches one of these buttons the Load screen will appear 40 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 19 49 E 19 50 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool HOUSE ID 1 HOUSE ID 1 HOUSE ID 3 HOUSE ID 3 HOUSE ID 5 Image 3 30 Load screen Image 3 31 Selecting from Load screen Y 19 52 Architect Support Tool Image 3 32 After loading the selected map In the load screen it will appear all the saved maps that exist in the current system if there is none then this screen will be just empty expecting the user to go back pressing the back button The user then can select any of the maps shown to be saved and load it 44 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagrams involved User Menu 1 Load Button 1 1 Shaw load Load 3 Load Button 4 map Draw Image 3 33 SD of Loading from Menu screen User Draw 1 Home Button 1 1 Show ridi sho
74. ment of doing the original plan we were at 1 6 12 but the implementation have been much longer than expected Originally the plan was not to use August month but was there in order was being late And that was the case all the implementation process has taken much longer than what though and it was because am new on Android environment as every task that needed have to document myself in order to know how to do it and that was an investing time that s not directly represented It has to be noted that the period from 25 7 12 to 5 8 12 was at my home country on holidays so was not working on the project on those days Second sometimes need feedback from my architect colleague and couldn t locate him fast and after locating him had to revise and modify some functionality That s why is a project based on the prototype lifecycle But wanted to maintain as far as could the original tasks without dropping any one so in the end the process that suffered from it was the Testing phase reduced just 20 hours and probably inside these hours 15 are from fixing code so it has been only 5 hours for testing preferred to have a prototype with much functions possible be done and working reasonable than to have a solid proof stable prototype but less functionalities If this works and it is good the stabilization of this prototype will be the next step Also in the beginning at the Investigation and documentation and also a
75. methodology to any of he previous four phases The documentation phase is being developed through these four phases 1 3 1 Project planning Following we show the estimated planning of the project with the 5 phases early stated clearly differentiated and divided into individual and indivisible work tasks In red we highlight the starting and finishing date of the projected project and also the dates of completion of the goals of the Specification and Design TASK 1 Investigation and Documentation Determining architect requirements Investigating architect terminology Preliminary analysis Learning Android environment Preparing framework 2 Specification and Design Analysis requirement Designing components Draw module strategy Interface module strategy Task planning Approved design 3 Implementation Main screens and basic navigation Draw Core Connect points Core Menu Option Interface Menu Option Select Popup Screen Length module Angle module START 1 03 12 1 03 12 13 03 12 15 03 12 20 03 12 23 04 12 1 05 12 1 05 12 8 05 12 16 05 12 20 05 12 23 05 12 31 05 12 1 06 12 1 06 12 4 06 12 11 06 12 15 06 12 17 06 12 17 06 12 20 06 12 27 06 12 END 30 04 12 12 03 12 14 03 12 19 03 12 22 04 12 30 04 12 31 05 12 7 05 12 15 05 12 19 05 12 22 05 12 30 05 12 31 05 12 5 08 12 3 06 12 14 06 12 14 06 12 16 06 12 30 06 12 19 06 12 26 06 12 30 06 12 TASK NAME Menu Option Eras
76. nt where the pathology exists and write relevant information regarding it Use case Input a pathology Actors Simple user starter Description Introduce a new pathology into the map Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes Pci introduce it into system eee eee 4 User touches the wall in which the D oathology will be related 5 The system detects the wall and launch up window with information of the wall 2 User touches the Select option 6 User touches the camera icon 1 camera application 8 User takes a picture ras 9 The system retrieves and save the picture into the system linking it into the selected wall It repaints that wall with diffrent colour to represent that wall has a pathology attached to it Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case 18 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects If something goes wrong like no camera application is detected there will be no picture attached to this pathology It can be retried again later Use case Input description of a pathology Actors Simple user starter Description A pathology description is inserted into the system Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes 1 User wants to input a description _ _ 0 3 The system activates the select mode 4 User touches the wall in which the pathology will be
77. oll Image 3 9 Practical select example Image 3 10 Practical select example All he has to do is to select the select option from the option menu now he is on select mode so he touches that particular wall and so the Entity screen or also called select screen appears Image 3 11 Popup entity window 12 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects The entity window is a popup window it has been decided as this because it s good to remember the user that this is just one of many windows as many as entities there are on the current map and he will not lose focus of the current map We take notice on that camera icon a red arrow is pointing into it the user will touch it in order to launch the internal camera and make a picture of the pathology and so save it into this current entity We can also see that this window has some information e Start Point The x y coordinates in which the wall begins e End Point The x y coordinates in which the wall ends e Length The actual length of the wall expressed in decametres 1 meter 10 decametres the reason is because for the moment there were not enough time for translating floating points meters into the system Instead of saying 9 5 meters the user will be required to put 95 decametres e Angle The relative angle of the wall The parameters Length and Angle can be modified by the user to meet new criteria and the system will redraw th
78. ong temp temp dh update so Id object if temp lt dh insert object dh close Code 3 Il Saving a map We are using the DataManipulator class in order to communicate with the Database the DataManipulator class has all the function calls insert update and select needed for the application 3 3 2 Save pathology scenario This is when the user inserts a new pathology or modifies one The relevant information to Save IS ID of the current map ID of the entity selected otring Description Where the description of the pathology will be captured otring Damage Where the elements affected will be captured Pictures already taken 59 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects For the last parameter we do not need nothing special because they are already saved in the SD card using the ID of the current map and the ID of the entity ID to identify them clear that in order to identify a Pathology we need the current ID map and the 10 of the selected entity the combination of both fields will identify univocally the pathology and so save the description damage and pictures of the pathology In this case there is no serialized object an SQL query of insert or update will be called using the Data Manipulator class public long insertPathology int houseid byte entityid String description String damage String INSERT_pathology insert into TABLE NAME2 housei
79. pathology inserted so will touch one of these 5 The system detects the wall and launches a pop up window with information of the wall 6 User touches the gallery icon 7 The system launches the gallery window where the user can see all pictures of this pathology See to see more pictures agen eer requested Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case There is not possible error during this action User Input Description View Pathologies Input Pathology Image 2 2 Use case diagram of the Pathology Core 20 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 3 3 Checklist Core This feature will be responsible to allow the user to input and retrieve a list of checked elements that the property accomplish not to have main purpose 15 to aid architects of elements to be checked Use case Check the list of elements Actors Simple user starter Description Checklist of the elements to be revised from the property Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions system s answer 1 User wants to check the elements of the property 2 User touches the Checklist option 3 The system launches the checklist window related to this map 4 User can see check or uncheck the desired elements And press Ok 5 The system saves these data and makes it persistent into the system Possible errors and
80. quired 0 5 Mega Bytes With just 2 flats we were exceeding the virtual memory of java and also it was slow Solution The solution was simple and we were surprised to not think about it before We just do not create any structure at all just when an entity is created we save its starting point and ending point in the same entity object and that s all and the most interesting thing is that we were already doing this so no big modifications were needed to do Then when the user touches the screen we call a function to search from the array structure containing all entities in order to find a point that it is inside the 20 pixels radius As the array of entities usually will contains few elements from the order of the 10th or 20s as much the search 15 instantly and we manage to resolve all the memory problems With this and other tweaks we passed from using 0 5MB as average for each flat into something no more bigger than 10KB the amount of flats that the system can store at least into its SQL database has been increased by fifty Second problem Saving photos for pathologies At the beginning the default option for a camera when it takes a photo is to take it at full resolution as much the camera of the smartphone can handle This was a problem 63 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects because when we tried to load these photos internally inside the application after only two pictures we were
81. r to guide us through all the construction process The architectonic pattern that we chose is the N layer architectonic pattern and oriented model objects First one is because is one of the most extended methodology and is quite natural to develop into it second one even support for it in order to make more modular codes it s a thing that we cannot change because Android is based on Java language and de facto this is oriented object language Presentation Layer Domain Layer Persistence Layer Image 2 5 3 layer architectonic pattern Our application will be based on the design of the standard 3 layer pattern that we can observe on the above image But with some considerations 1 The presentation layer will be just the design of the screens of the Android application 2 The persistence layer will be just something simple and small in order to save the data 24 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 1 Conceptual data model diagram The solution will be formed as a set of modules implemented independently who they will interact with each other in order to accomplish the desired goal Presentation layer 2 2 1 1 Presentation layer The presentation layer is the one responsible to interact with the user In our solution it is something granted because we will be using an smartphone screen to interact with the user through its touch capabilities Besides this layer is quite simple we a
82. ram involved user Draw 1 Hame Button 1 1 Show Options Menu 1 2 Scrall made 1 3 Scrall made 2 Home Button Image 3 25 SD of Scrolling 98 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 6 Saving A must needed functionality for any application in this prototype is easy as simple it is the only thing that the user needs to do is to push the button Save from the Options menu Scroll Select Image 3 26 Option menu Save The save option will save the current map in the SQLite Database for data and into SD card for the current map treated as a bitmap Originally was thought to save everything on the SQLite database after converting the bitmap map into a serialize byte object but it consumed too much memory and was slow Every time that the user will push the save button the system will try to find this current map in the database if exists it will replace it for the new one if not it will create a saved new map In this prototype the user is not asked for a name all maps will be saved with the notation of House ID followed by the ID number of the map assigned from the beginning as being unique 39 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved user Draw 1 Hame Button 1 1 Show Options Menu Option 1 2 Save 1 3 Save 2 Home Button Image 3 27 SD of Saving 3 2 Loading would not
83. re going to show the different windows needed to have to achieve our goals Menu Draw Load Entity Gallery popup window Image 2 6 UML conceptual data model of Layer Presentation After the main screen which will be a transitional screen we will reach the menu screen from there the user can chose if wants to draw or load a previous map In Draw screen we can navigate to Load screen or to the Entity screen the screen that shows information of the walls painted in the map in the future will be considered to be a popup window in the Design phase Then from this window the user can navigate to the Gallery window where the Pathology Core is located 25 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 1 2 Domain layer The domain layer contains the logic of the application The classes that we find here are responsible to maintain the control of the application and its necessary data structure in order to maintain the data in execution memory 2 2 1 2 1 Draw open ej Options H Scroll New Door Select H Erase H Vector Image 2 7 UML conceptual data model of Draw Core Domain Layer Draw class is the responsible to have the maps represented into the screen the user will be almost all the time interacting with this class Options class will be executed each time the user pushes the option button and it will offer several options e New
84. related Black walls have already a pathology inserted so will touch one of these 5 The system detects the wall and launch a pop up window with information of the wall _6 User touches the gallery icon 2 User touches the Select option 6 User touches the gallery icon 7 The system launches gallery window where the user can see all oictures of this pathology PEU ils RN insert the new description 9 The system opens up the virtual keyboard if there is no physical keyboard in this smartphone 10 User types the new relevant 0536 information And press 9 The system save this new information and close the gallery window going back orevious Possible errors and alternative courses of the use case User does not want to save the new description then he only needs to push the back button and not the Ok button in order to not make any change Use case View pictures of a pathology Actors Simple user starter Description Viewing all photos taken for a particular pathology Typical dialog between actors and system and resulted produced changes User actions system s answer 1 User wants to view pictures of a pathology 2 User touches the Select option NT 4 User touches the wall in which the 3 The system activates the select mode 210 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects pathology will be related Black walls have already a
85. rge let s say just 40 after 136 downloads we will recover the costs 66 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects But to think in those terms is unreal as stated the application as it is now cannot be sold even is not usable enough for a free release unfortunately so this case of study should be done in the future when the prototype would cease to be a mere prototype But as this is only personal costs sincerely do not treat that as important as long the application is popular and successful in the future Sincerely am just thinking to make it as free as possible 7 Possible improvements and upgrades This is the first usable prototype to see how helpful an application like this can be for architects but obviously it needs to be improved These are all the elements that need improvement The Length measure of the entity window should be changed in order to reflect Meters and not Decametres this should be fairly easy to accomplish Delete option for Pathologies or saved maps This should be easy to accomplish too Every time that the user wants to save the application should ask if he wants to rewrite an over existing save or create a new one and ask also the name of this save state This may need a bit of work but shouldn t be any problems in doing so Zoom option for Zooming out or in the entire bitmap This is difficult to implement because it touches a lots of areas but should be done
86. running out of virtual memory Solution There is an option when calling the internal camera application to take a low resolution picture and store it into a bitmap that saved all the virtual memory 64 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 5 Planning Finally the original planning has suffered some changes of redistribution and dedicated tasks TASK START END j HOURS SPENT Investigation and Documentation 1 03 12 30 04 12 Determining architect requirements 1 03 12 12 03 12 Investigating architect terminology 13 03 12 14 03 12 Preliminary analysis Learning Android environment Preparing framework Specification and Design Analysis requirement Designing components Draw module strategy Interface module strategy Task planning Implementation Main screens and basic navigation Draw Core Connect points Core Menu Option Interface Menu Option Select Popup Screen Length module Angle module Menu Option Erase Menu Option Scroll Menu Option Save Menu Option Load Menu Option New Improvement Connect points Core Camera Interaction Gallery Module Improvement Draw Core Vector Mode Menu Option Door Pathology Module Checklist Module End of Implementation esting Fixing code Preliminary documentation Final Thesis Memory Tetdhous 977 65 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects About the first 2 phases there were no changes because at the mo
87. s development process but we can say that at least we improved from the ever first version The early version as we commented at some point before had 2 big problems regarding usage of memory and performance First problem Saving Data structures into SQL The early version used a Connecting Points Core who consumed lots of resources in order to detect if the finger of the user when it touches the screen were near of another point the first implemented solution was to have 2 arrays of points the size of each array was equal to all pixels that a screen could have In our particular case 240 320 pixels as per our android smartphone X10 Mini Each position of this array represented a pixel of the screen When an user touched the screen we saved into the position of the array the new id entity that was being created and also the next 40 40 pixels near to it 20 pixels of radius tolerances was equal as an square of 40 40 pixels being the touched one its centre so when later the user were about to touch the screen around that particular position we just had to check into the array if it was filled with an entity id if it was we knew that it had a near point to be connected And we were using 2 arrays one for integer positions and the other for float positions Obviously when we begin to implement the save function and the database this proved to be too much memory consuming actually was calculated that by an average flat size it was re
88. s using notebooks or netbooks with AutoCad the main architect s software But the process is quite manual and later they need to put all this information together in order to use it 1 6 Disadvantages Hoom for improvement Architects are forced to carry notebook or netbooks if they want to fully take advantage of the informatics in their job at the streets which lots of them do not bring them In some countries to have a notebook may be a normal thing but not for this case AutoCad is a heavy application that usually needs a pretty powerful computer depending of the severity of the property that one wants to represent Usually architects have desktop computers which are powerful to do that job There is also the explanation that not everywhere in the world they can afford for a notebook or netbook and finally when they need to work almost all day in the streets usually the battery autonomy of the notebooks restrict them oo in the end they usually take photos and put all the information in physical format like the always reliable pencil pen and paper But that can be improved if they could be able to gather all this information in one place also this tool could support them in order to check further information readily available from Databases And so here is the scope and the main goal of this project For the moment this tool is not pretending to substitute any previous methodology it is still far from it But as a f
89. self which was already related into the map 2 1 1 6 Ability to check a list of elements of occupancy Architects need to verify several characteristics of the property they are visiting in order to issue a Certificate of occupancy Our solution will give a checklist for each map in order to revise if the flat fulfils those requirements or not 2 1 2 Non functional requirements The non functional requirements that we want our application to comply are 2 1 2 1 User interface and Human factor As the intended application is for architects we have to realize that they are not informatics specialists so the user interface has to be simple and easy to understand in order to be easy for use will contain few screens and almost everything will be performed using the same combination of buttons option s menu As for screen there will be few of them just the required ones 2 1 2 2 Efficiency The application will be small enough to be fast and all the data structures generated have been created thinking about it s global performance As this will be used for deviced that have small power of CPU smartphones and with low memory this step is critical 2 1 2 3 Extensibility As this is a prototype its modular code has to be easy enough in order to extend its possibilities This is after all a first attempt of this type of application and so it can be much much extended in order to add new functionalities and extend those that are alr
90. sesccuscescunseuss 42 IMAGE 3 34 SD OF LOADING FROM DRAW 42 IMACE 3 33 OPTION MENU NEW O 43 IMACE 2 35 INBEWJBE AN EGNUSP T 43 IMAGE 3 37 SD OF LOADING FROM DRAW SCREEN ccccsccssccssccscccsccucceucccsceuscesccescesceusceuccesccescesscenceusceuscenseuss 43 IMAGE 3 38 MISTAKENLY PLACED WALL ccccccsccssscssccuccesccnscenccessescessesccesseusseuscesceusseesceussesccesceuseeaccesseuseuss 44 IMAGE 3 39 OPTION MENU ERASE x ROC oe Deco exe Ve eodd o wea v Ut vv S e Ue BUE 44 IMAGE 3 40 WALL BEING REMOVED OUT ccsccssccecccnccesccescenccesseuscenccusceuscenccusceccesccusseccenscesseuscenseussescuceuss 44 IMAGE 3 41 7 SD OB ERASE A octies ce bdo 45 IMAGE 3 42 AREA OF TOLERANCE TO CONNECT POINTS cccccscccssccescccssccesccesccescceusccesccesceessseusseesceusseeeeseussenss 45 IMAGE 343 INE APTER CONNECTING POIN vae Aue 45 IMAGE 344 ACTIVATING MBCTOR MODE ese cL LI M LAU rep 46 WAL ATE 210 E 46 WALA S EES SE 46 69 IMAGE 3 47 IMAGE 3 48 IMAGE 3 49 IMAGE 3 50 IMAGE 3 51
91. ssed through the Options menu and will save the current map and all its relevant information It will rewrite the existing file if it exists and if not it will create a new entry D an 19 49 Architect Support Tool HOUSE ID 1 HOUSE ID 2 Image 3 12 Save Option HOUSE ID 3 HOUSE ID 4 3 6 Loading HOUSE ID 5 Accessed through the Option Menu this window will show us all the current saved maps in order to load them Image 3 13 Load Option 16 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 7 Create anew map This option does nothing more than to create a new blank map 19 57 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Vector Door CheckList Image 3 14 Option menu New Image 3 15 New blank map 3 8 Erase a wall This option allows the user to touch a wall and remove it to activate it the user has to touch the Delete option menu 19 14 B 19715 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Image 3 16 Mistakenly placed wall Image 3 17 Wall being removed out 237 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 9 Connecting Points Core We cannot expect a human person to be as precise to select exactly the point where the point where the user touched the screen or stopped touching the screen and begins to search if there is a nearby wall to he wants to draw that s why this system catches connect it The
92. st dh selectCheckList houseID if list size 0 dh updateCheckList houseID vali val2 val3 val4 val5 val6 val7 else dh insertCheckList houseID 11 val2 val3 val4 val5 16 17 dh close finish DE Code 3 V Saving checklist of current map And this is the InserCheckList of the DataManipulator class quite similar as the insert from the case of save of draw public long insertCheckList int houseid byte dimensions byte ventilation byte windows byte smokepipe byte gaspipe byte lights byte plugs String sql insert into TABLE 4 houseid dimensions ventilation windows smokepipe gaspipe lights plugs values houseid dimensions ventilation windows smokepipe gaspipe lights plugs 61 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 5 this insertStmt DataManipulator db compileStatement sql1 return this insertStmt executeInsert Code 3 V InsertCheckList from DataManipulator class The checklist data is stored into the fourth and last table of the database called newtable4 3 3 5 Creation and purpose of each table So finally we have 4 tables in our SQLite database newtable Responsible to store the data structure of a map it stores serialized objects newtable2 Responsible to store the pathologies it stores ID of the map ID of the
93. t Support Tool 19 05 Architect Support Tool Description EL p EE Image 3 16 Navigating between photos Py Image 3 15 Gallery window 19 06 Architect Support Tool t i Image 3 17 Navigating between photos The user then can see the pictures and in order to see more of them if they exists the only thing he needs to do 15 to touch the picture and move it into the right or left as an standard gallery motion In this example we can see a wall with humidity problems Now he wants to input relevant information of this pathology such a description and the elements that are affected If he scrolls down the window with the movement of the finger he will find all the possible text fields to fill 35 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Y 19 06 Pm 19 09 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Water leakage on the wall owner says it began last week after heavy rain Probably it comes from the qwertyuiop GN asdfghjkl Elements affected 72x cvbnm 7123 4 Image 3 18 Gallery text fields Image 3 19 Gallery input method So when he touches one of the fields the virtual keyboard will appear if there is no physical keyboard in the smartphone allowing the user to write a description of the detected pathology 19 10 Architect Support Tool Y 20 09 Architect Support Tool
94. t the specification and design was setting up myself here at Wroclaw with this new experience being erasmus student so need some time in order to properly focus on thesis So far this summer has been great in order to advance a lot of work on this project 6 Budget As all projects there have to be a section speaking about the budget or overall cost that would represent this application if it was about to put on commercial status In this particular case perhaps in the future may be a commercial application but obviously not as it is like now it needs more improvements yet to be on commercial level but anyway for the moment is not so difficult to compute the cost First there are no proprietary licenses in this code the advantage for programming for android is that there are no additional costs on licenses Second the smartphone cost it cannot be counted as the cost of the application because that s outside of our control Third the only costs here is the number of hours developing on this application which as the present case it have been only one person me and one can just multiply the total number of hours by an average price per hour of programming In Spain would be like 677 8 5 416 here at Wroclaw would be less am not educated enough to know the average income for an IT specialist but suppose around 677 19 12 863PLN If our most directly competitor charges like 80 for a similar application if we cha
95. t the Door option and Checklist option that we will explain after this example As we already explained with this features one can draw maps quite effectively and we are going to make a real case example We are again with an user who is an architect an is an inspector trying to insert pathologies in a new flat so with that premise he will begin to draw the map using the vector mode to be fast and at the same time accurate 47 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects P 19 22 Architect Support Tool Image 3 50 Wrong drawn wall After drawing the map it is expected that it will not be perfect and there will be some sections that need to be improved fortunately the application gives tools in order to fix this situations Let s say that our user wants to correct that wall because it is not straight enough 0 4 silii Listo Image 3 51 Angle is 355 Image 3 52 Input new angle Through the use of the Select option we can open the Entity Window with the related information of this wall and we can see that the angle is 355 so in order to have it straight we have to input 0 48 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 13 24 Architect Sup po rt Tool Image 3 53 Angle at 0 Image 3 54 New corrected wall Ok we manage to correct the wall to be oriented at 0 angle but we are still not satisfied of the result We realized th
96. te properties and issue the certificate of occupancy Inspector One who is responsible to evaluate the legal conditions of the property e Interior designer One who tries to maximize or rearrange or decorate the available space inside of a property to meet the expectations of the customer All of them in order to do their job needs the representation of the property into a 2D representation sometimes in 3D usually called a map The most basic thing is to be able to have a map of the property from a point of view from above to bottom They usually achieve this taking pictures drawing in papers and sometimes using notebooks or netbooks with AutoCad the main architect s software Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects But the process is quite manual and later they need to put all this information together in order to use it So architects are forced to carry notebooks or netbooks if they want to fully take advantage of the informatics in their job at the streets which lots of them do not bring them In some countries to have a notebook may be a normal thing but for another countries isn t AutoCad is a heavy application that usually needs a quite powerful computer depending on the severity of the property that one wants to represent Usually architects have desktop computers which are powerful to do that job There is also the explanation that not everywhere in the world they can afford for a no
97. tebook or netbook and finally when they need to work almost all day in the streets usually the battery autonomy of the notebooks restricts them oo in the end they usually take pictures and use pencil pen on paper But that can be improved if they would be able to gather all this information in one place This tool could support them in order to check further information readily available from Databases And so here is the scope and the main goal of this project For the moment this tool is not pretending to substitute any previous methodology it is still far from it But as a first prototype that can be fully expanded it s a good beginning 1 1 Project goals Good we have a necessity to fulfil and motivation to develop but now the first problem encountered was that did not have previous knowledge of Android so taking into consideration that here are the goals of this project 1 Learn Android language and be proficient developing for it 2 Develop a useful tool for architects that allow them to at least represent maps and introduce information 3 Start a prototype which may be expanded in the future In order to fulfil these goals the minimum application s requirements in order to be useful should be as follows Ability to represent maps Ability to annex photos into sections of these maps Ability to save and load these maps Ability to write descriptions of the pathologies encountered Ability to check a list of requir
98. the concept we are searching is OrthoGraph only problem with this application is that its intended for iPad and costs 74 around 290PLN In reality as we explained in the introductory chapter there are not many applications as this 28 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 Design and Implementation 3 1 Proposed design As this is a first prototype we decided to be it as useful as possible so there are SO many special features that made this application beautiful but rather practical and simple A few windows that share the same design are been implemented and we are going to present them in the following sections 3 2 Architect Support Tool This is the name of the application and we are going to describe how it works 3 2 1 Main and Menu screen This is the first screen presented to the user where he can choose to Draw a map Load a previous saved map or Clear all the data of the application 18 59 E 20 01 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Draw Clear Data Clear Data Image 3 1 Menu screen of AST In this occasion the user has touched the Draw button 29 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects Sequence diagram involved User menus 1 raw a DERI F Load Butten 1 1 Show Load Draw Draw 1 2 Show Draw 1 2 Show Load 2 Draw Button 2 Load Buttan Image 3 2 SD of
99. the flat e Smoke Pipe If checked the smoke pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Gas Pipe If checked the gas pipes do not have any problem and they do exist e Lights If checked the flat has enough lights to make it a comfortable place through all the room e Plugs If checked the flat has enough plugs connections through all the rooms P 19 59 TE ua 20 33 Architect Support Tool Architect Suppo rt Tool Ventilation m Windows EN Smoke Pipe Gas Pipe Vector Lights Door Plugs Image 3 23 Option menu CheckList Image 3 24 Accepting changes When the user selects the Checklist Option menu the Checklist screen will appear with all the elements to be checked If the user does not want to make any modification or just to read it he will need to touch the back button instead of the Ok button All maps have one checklist associated to them 18 59 Architect Support Tool 3 13 Clear data This button allows the user to delete all the information of the system pictures and databases related to the application of course And with all of this the general description of the Application is done Clear Data Image 3 25 Clear Data button 20
100. ther devices Finally Android version 2 1 is old but it is still a quite distributed version between android users as there were no problems to make this application for that version it was a good idea to do it in order to maintain as much as possible the compatibility of older devices 11 Android version 2 1 is the third most used version as of the day this thesis was written according to http developer android com about dashboards index html pe Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 Programming The programming was done using prototype methodology which consisted in try to acquire a readily testing application to receive feedback and going back in previous steps to upgrade and modify the relevant parts Following this principle we have applied a facade software pattern because it s still small enough to contain almost all the logic in few files Our first step was to create the interface and the navigation between windows so our Main and Menu class were created 2 1 Main and Menu Class Main java is the first class to be called by the program and it s only a bypass step this class just waits 0 1 seconds and then invokes the Menu activity which will be the one responsible to show the buttons public void run try sleep 10 Intent menuIntent new Intent com pwroc ArchTool MENU startActivity menuIntent catch InterruptedException e TODO Auto generated catch block
101. tolerance distance for connection is set up to 20 pixels radius away Image 3 18 Area of tolerance to connect points 3 10 Vector mode This is another feature in order to help the user to draw maps until now we have seen that the user can draw straight lines with free angle they can be 18 degrees 173 degrees whatever as long the finger is moving through the screen Sometimes this is impractical if one wants to draw rooms and flats in a faster way The Vector mode enables the user to only draw Straight lines at 0 90 180 and 270 as this application is not intended for the moment at this current prototyoe stage to be exact representation of the world but instead a support tool we think the vector mode will cover the needs of drawing rooms and flats most of the time As usual this option is enabled through the option menu and in order to deactivate it one has to touch it again 18 Image 3 19 Line after automatically connecting the walls Door CheckList Image 3 20 Activating Vector Mode Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 11 Door Input The ability to put doors is important in order to see where the entrances of the respective rooms are as this is a prototype there were no time to drag and drop a door icon so we used the ability to remove partially smaller sections of the walls CheckList Image 3 21 Option menu Door Image 3 22 Flat w
102. tuation all architects regardless of its role need to represent the property that they are analyzing into a 2D surface at least Our solution gives the user the ability to draw into the screen in order to recreate a map of the flat that he is watching That s why we needed a touch screen and so a smartphone instead of a cell phone 2 1 1 3 Ability to include and take photos Architects works taking photos in the interest of documenting pathologies the best way 15 to take a photo of the pathology itself Our solution gives the user the ability to take photos and includes them into the drawn map at the particular place where this pathology was so he can look at it later in the future 2 1 1 4 Ability to save and load the data This point almost does not need justification if architects wouldn t be able to save or load previous works the entire application would be useless because sooner or later the architect will exit the application and so it is needed to save all the progress and retrieve later if needed ee Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 1 1 5 Ability to write descriptions As architects made notes of the pathologies that they encounter our solution will give the ability to write descriptions and explanations of the pathology that have been found and it will offer too to add the affected element into the system both information would be related to the photo taken before the pathology it
103. ut in the future could be much more complex we will explain on that on the chapter Possible Improvement All maps will have a Checklist linked to them so the Draw Class will communicate to the Checklist class responsible to show all the current elements that the flat complies or not complies 97 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 2 2 1 3 Persistence layer The persistence layer are composed of all the classes responsible to make persistent the data of the application when this one it is not being executed and so retrieve it later Draw opens ue Options Menu H Camera 1 EE 1 i perform opens opens Save Load SQLite DE 50 Card Image 2 10 UML conceptual data model of Persistence Layer For tracking purposes we represent the Draw Options and Menu Classes for clarification of how the classes interact with the persistence layer As one may guess the Save class is responsible to save all the data structure into an SQLite database for data structures and into SD Card for bitmaps representing the maps being drawn The Load class is responsible to load all this data either from SQLite DB or SD Card and finally we have the Camera Class which is not a class of our application but an external one who also saves the picture into the SD Card 2 3 Other solutions description commercial ones There are few applications regarding to help architects for small devices but the most similar to
104. vate static final long serialVersionUID 11 public byte mapCoordinates public ArrayList lt DrawEntity gt aEntities new ArrayList lt DrawEntity gt public int Id public String bitmapFlnm Code 3 1 saveObject class This saveObject is serialized and then inserted into the SQLite in the first newtable private void save 0 List byte states null dh new DataManipulator this states dh selectAll dh close dh null Id states size 1 SaveObject so new saveObject 58 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects so aEntities this aEntities so mapCoordinates this mapCoordinates so ld Id so bitmapFlnm HOUSE_ID_ Id save bitmap to sd ByteArrayOutputStream bytes new ByteArrayOutputStream mBitmap compress Bitmap CompressFormat PNG 100 bytes try File folder new File Environment getExternalStorageDirectory BASE HOUSE so Id File separator if folder exists 4 folder mkdir File f new File Environment getExternalStorageDirectory BASE HOUSE so Id File separator so bitmapFlnm png f createNewFile write the bytes in file FileOutputStream fo new FileOutputStream f fo write bytes toByteArray fo close catch Exception e e printStackTrace byte object SerializerClass serializeObject so dh new DataManipulator this l
105. veloping this application 1 4 2 Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini This smartphone is the one that was mainly used to develop this application the reason 15 no other that was the one that hold my own so in order to develop it tested it on it In order to use other smartphone was using the emulator coming with the Android framework Though have to comment there is some advantages to develop in this particular smartphone as it is one of the smallest that exist on the market so managing to develop a drawing application in such an small screen reinforces the confidence that the application will be working much better on higher screen size devices and it will perform as intended on smaller devices Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 1 4 3 Android 2 1 framework The decision to develop this application for Android is because First the main goal is to develop it for smartphones or tablet pc s we finally chose smartphones because there are more devices than tablet pc s so it may be more useful for more people Second as we did not have in our reach other devices with different OS we decided to do it for Android Third have a preference to certain degree for Android platform as how Open Source is involved but discussing that here is beyond the scope of this project Just for starting we chose to develop it for Android because was the faster and feasible way to us in order to generate fast resu
106. w Load TUER Load 1 2 Load map 4 Home Button Image 3 34 SD of Loading from Draw screen 42 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 8 Create new map The user has the option to whenever he wants to create a new map disposing of all the current data displayed on the screen Vector CheckList Image 3 35 Option menu New Image 3 36 New blank map Now he is able to begin a new drawing with new structures This process is the only way to create new maps and increase the ID identifier of each map Sequence diagram involved user Draw 1 Home Button 1 1 Show Options Menu Option 1 2 New map 1 3 New map 2 Home Button Image 3 37 SD of Loading from Draw screen 43 Master Thesis Development of a software tool to support architects 3 2 9 Erase a wall Let s say that the user begins to draw quite a strange room but he fails to connect the last wall to close the room Image 3 38 Mistakenly placed wall So he can select the erase option from the menu and select that wall to remove it Scroll Select X A Mas Image 3 39 Option menu Erase Image 3 40 Wall being removed out When the user touches the Erase option he enters into the Delete Mode in this mode any entity that he will touch will be removed it After removing the desired wall now he can try again to draw the wall as he desires The user needs to touch the Erase option
107. y inspection Another one of my jobs is to perform inspections on old buildings searching for problems In that case have to do fast drawings too and create notes about the pathologies found W 10 35 Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Architect Support Tool Description Fissures Elements affected wall and ceiling Description Problens as a result of old water Fissures infiltrations ements affected 3 3 4 8 3 5 5 Encoubter between exterior wall qw i y u io and interior Probable cause Bad connection between the two walls Not dangerous but needs SECTOR PEL ih correction t z X cvbnm 2123 _ o Here you can see the fast notes the app is capable to produce 3 3 Conclusion This app sure is a prototype but at the actual point it is already a powerful app that in many ways earns me time on my daily work It s a fast way to do things already do and few more that don t and moreover it is a way to do it all in a better way 4 Epilogue And so this concludes the purpose of this manual explaining all the options that the application offers and how to use them even from an architect s point of view We hope you will be glad to use it And we cannot end this manual without giving special thanks to Jaume Casadevall Puig who kindly offered himself to help us in order to write this manual
108. y need all this information for several purposes sometimes because the client requested a check of the security of the building and if it is needed to do some fixings other times they need it in order to issue the certificate of occupancy other times it might be just simple as to document the state of a building during time Usually all this information is gathered by hand making notes and taking photos so as to late introduce them in computer and use their main popular architect program like AutoCad He told me that would be really useful to have some sort of application that could be launched though a mobile device like an smartphone or a tablet pc and could assist them in this work thought it was an interesting concept to further develop so when finally got my change to develop it proposed it here in Wroctaw And am happy that the tutor find it interesting too It is no secret that an application like this though small merges several areas of informatics like graphical design graphical interface user interaction and databases And finally it is based from a real necessity which encourages to do its development As up today there is no other free application like this nor a paid one that have knowledge finally decided to try to do it by myself and this is the result After some deliberation intended for this application to be for Android systems the reason is quite simple first really like the Open Source environment

Architect Support Tool Cover

Contents

Download Pdf Manuals

Related Search

Related Contents