When the Vans Aren't Running Due to a Special Condition, the App Should Alert the User

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Vandy Vans Project for iOS

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When the Vans Aren't Running Due to a Special Condition, the App Should Alert the User #20

Open sethfri opened 10 years ago

sethfri commented 10 years ago

Currently, if the vans aren't running due to inclement weather, the app just tries to fetch the arrival times as normal, having no idea whether the vans are running or not (as long as it's between 5 PM and 5 AM).

The app should first check whether there are any Announcements using the GetPortalInformation and GetPortalEntries APIs on VandyVans.com and alert the user if there are any. If there are none, the app should fetch arrival times as usual.

sethfri commented 10 years ago

After noticing how poorly the Announcements on VandyVans.com are maintained, we're definitely going to want to go a different route. My current thought is that if we build a VandyApps Vandy Vans API, we could attempt to maintain this ourselves.