I’ve notice the app does not run as smoothly as before and tends to run a bit slow. the app has also began to crash once I have started to run it within Xcode, I believe this may have been due to the amount of files or objects within the AR experience as a result I have tried to reduce the number of animations and objects within the AR files hopefully this will help the App run a bit more smoothly.
This week I have mainly been working on my thesis trying to get as much done as possible. Last week some feed back I received about the app is it could maybe do with some visual cues within the AR experience, this is something im going to try and work on and figure out how this could be done. I am a bit worried for time so if this does not get completed I could add this within my report and explain why this would have been a good feature to have. I was able to get someone to voice the navigation elements within the app so i’ll use that rather than using the text-to speech module.
This week I’ve continued work on the app and started work on the thesis. I was able to get a few of the cards working within the AR experience. I have noticed that it’s an on again and off again thing where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work, I’m still not sure what could be the reason behind this but for now it works so hopefully that remains the case. Concerning the letters I’ve had a feeling of creating alphabet blocks instead of just having the letter appear, I feel like that will improve readability a lot more but I’m still deciding on this factor.
This week I’ve started work on the app. I have added some animations to make it a bit more engaging for kids. As I mentioned before I’ve used the module AVfoundation to include voice-overs, in the hopes of simplifying the app’s navigation.
The only downfall to this I believe is the text-speech voice does not sound very engaging and might be a bit hard to understand due to its monotone voice, but I’ve also realised I’ve made a few spelling mistaking and missing commas within the text so once corrected, this could maybe help resolve this issue. Additionally, shortening the instructions may also work better.