Charlie Rose Schedule for Android

Sometimes you might be out trying to decide whether or not you should head home early for Charlie Rose. That’s difficult when you don’t know who’s on. When you look at the channel guide on the TV, it doesn’t tell you who’s on that night. So here is the Charlie Rose app for Android. When you launch it, it tells you who’s on tonight and tomorrow night.

The app hits this php script and displays the text on the device. I figure if I let the app hit the script for the data, I can manipulate the script later on without asking people to update their version of the application. I spent most of my time scraping together this app and not enough time understanding why it doesn’t work all the time, so by the time I got the script all tidy and in a presentable state, my app wasn’t connecting to the Internet. I’ve read that the Android emulator itself is buggy. Regardless of whether it’s my fault or Android’s, debugging has been basically impossible due to connection issues on the emulator. Here’s a screenshot of one of the early occasions that it worked. When the app is totally finished and ready to go, it’ll be posted on Summer Mittens.