## Tue 05 Nov 2024 ### Meeting with Supervisor - Discussed research ethics, supervisor sent the following documents from the research ethics committee: - Plain language statement. - Consent form. - Discussed project definition document: - Decided on LaTeX document. - Decided to work on initial draft and then get review from supervisor. - Discussed final report: - Decided on LaTeX document. - Decided to start working on immediately, adding to it as progress is made. - Focus on including non-trivial progress in report immediately rather than diary. - Discussed diary: - Although had set up Confluence for this meeting, decided to use a plain Markdown file to simplify the diary, keep all materials in the one Git repository, and focus on including non-trivial progress in the final report rather than the diary. - Discussed competitor analysis: - Table with rows for each "competitor" product and columns for questions about how they do things. - Decided to include this directly in final report when table created rather than put in diary. - Decided to focus on primarily developing product as a web app, with a secondary requirement to port it to mobile if possible. - Discussed React vs React Native: - React Native is more effort and more difficult to develop in: reduced compatibility with vanilla React. - Discussed if worth using React Native if focussing on web. - For time being, decided to focus on React Native development *for web* while maintaining maximum mobile portability. Not focusing on mobile development but trying not to break anything, and attempting to port at the end of development. - TODO: By end of week, make permanent decision on framework & target platform. - Since React was originally chosen specifically for React Native, worth considering not using React if only focussing on web development. Other options: - Apache Cordova for porting to mobile. - Pure HTML & JavaScript for web app. - Other frameworks, e.g. Vue. - Discussed map & plotting libraries: - Leading choice is Mapbox: works with React Native, free up to 50,000 monthly map loads. - Action items: - [X] Create final report LaTeX document. - [X] Add skeleton of PDD to Git repository. - [ ] Make decision on React vs React Native.