Refer to intro here #12

Implementation

1. Item names, portraits, and in-game descriptions
2. Separate basic items from upgrades
3. Clicking a basic item should display the upgrades they build into (if applicable of course)
4. Item stats and effects
5. Search bar

Future Implementation:

1. Record our own videos to demonstrate items with active abilities

In the Live Matches overview, the players' current Steam names are displayed. Use OpenDota's list of pro players and connect the players' Steam IDs to their well-known official names.

In the Live Matches overview, add the players' currently played heroes next to their name. Mock-up:

http://liquipedia.net/dota2/Portal:Patches seems like a very good overview for Dota 2 patches and looks great on mobile

Enhance the overview with pro team names (for tournament matches), elapsed time, score, gold advantage, hero names and the Steam Server ID. Probably make most of the additional information only appear when tapping on a match to keep the UI clearer in the default case. Also add an info button to the Action Bar that shows a pop-up describing what can be done in this overview, especially with the Steam Server ID.

Right now there a very basic buttons that allow entering a new Activity, this should be improved. I really like this list fading in from the left side seen in many popular apps, e.g. in Google Maps:

When opening the app for the very first time, show a welcome screen. Then, make it an "About" screen accessible optionally.

Add some common settings to allow convenient customization.

It should be clear which steps and conventions to follow when contributing to this project. This should help inexperienced users get familiar with Git and improves the overall structure and organization.

Currently, the different datasets are always cached for a fixed amount of time. For example, leaderboards are cached for one hour since that's how often they are being updated. The same goes for the heroes and items datasets which are only updated every ~14 days.

Checking for updated datasets with Unix timestamps provided by the custom API over at https://github.com/Rhacco/Dota2ExtraServices is more flexible and more accurate, and the year 2038 is not too close yet.

In a new Activity, show overviews of interesting currently running matches.

This should (at least) include tournament and highest average MMR matches. Both seem to be accessible via the official Dota 2 API fairly comfortably.

The app should have a proper general style. As a start, I would suggest giving backgrounds, title bars, buttons and maybe fonts a unique feel.

Use the API endpoint http://www.dota2.com/webapi/ILeaderboard/GetDivisionLeaderboard/v0001?division=europe with either europe, americas, se_asia or china to provide up-to-date leaderboards for quick and convenient mobile use.

Enhance leaderboards with

• cache received data and make it valid for one day
• markers that indicate if a player moved up or down on the leaderboard or stayed at the same position compared to the previous day
• a search function

Using a fixed code style makes working on the project easier for everyone.

With the ViewModel architecture, fetched data survives in memory (or in a database) when the related Activity is destroyed. Add a refresh action to Live Matches, e.g. 'swipe down to refresh', to allow refreshing the data again without having to reopen the app entirely.

It would be so helpful to just pull out your phone and have all the info you need about heroes and items. This can be used to look something up about a hero that you forgot about, and/or using it as an educational tool while telling your friends all about DotA. Having a search bar for either tabs is also crucial.

Please feel free to approach with an idea and we can discuss it.

Implementation:

1. Hero names and portrait
2. Ability name, portrait, and in-game description
3. Heroes talent trees
4. Heroes stats: attributes (also gain per level), attack, defense, mobility, health, and mana.
5. Heroes difficulty and general role
6. Heroes lore (biography section in the about tab after clicking a hero)
7. Search bar

Future implementation:

1. Record our own videos to demonstrate abilities
2. Adding guides
3. Adding custom builds
4. Display detailed roles (Roles in the about tab after clicking a hero)
5. Add proper Aghanim's Scepter upgrades to abilities that get upgraded

Allow users to log in with their Steam account. I'm not familiar with this process yet but I'm thinking after a successful login, we should be able to query the Steam Web API with the specific user information somehow. This might help to get started.

Currently, each leaderboard is stored in its own table. It's simpler to store them in one table with the region being the primary key.

...to filter for specific players/teams/heroes