Is it recycling week?

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About this app

v2.0.0

This open source app was written for citizens wanting to know if it is a recycling pickup week or not via Android devices.

Currently, data is available for Appleton, Greenville, Seymour, New London, Kaukauna, Little Chute, Kimberly, Combined Locks and other points in-between in Outagamie County in Northeast Wisconsin.

Want to help improve this app or it's API? See us on http://dhmncivichacks.github.io/

Android app Contributors:
Chris Jaure - Testing, feature ideas, Github issues
Dan Gabrielson - Java help, testing, and pairing.
David Kieffer - Art, testing, UX feedback.
Jacob Kiser - Major re-write improving code organization and navigation.
Amy Putnam - Testing, UX feedback.
Jacob Putnam - Testing, UX feedback.
Mike Putnam - Original version, deployment.
Mike Rosack - Enabled data from any city/town with adherence to the Civic Hack API Locator - http://civic-hack-api-locator.azurewebsites.net/#/contracts for recycling dates.
Eric Schultz - Bug report/testing
Bob Waldron - Testing, UX feedback.

Other "Is it recycling week?" clients:
https://github.com/dhmncivichacks/AppletonPebble - Pebble watch client
http://dhmncivichacks.github.io/isitrecycling - Web client

Thanks to:

Local Wisconsin municipalities for providing open data to hack on.

Bob Waldron and DHMN Civic Hacks for leading the first Northeast Wisconsin civic hackathon.

All the people at the Appleton Makerspace and the Appleton Coworking for inspiration and a place to write code.

Jim Carlson and BarCampMilwaukee for introducing me to unconferences.

Greg Tracy and SMSMyBus for an inspiring example of civic hacking in Madison, WI

Google App Engine for providing a generous free tier of their PaaS hosting.
Updated on
Aug 1, 2016

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What's new

v2.0.0 introduces support for data from the following areas: Appleton, Greenville, Seymour, New London, Kaukauna, Little Chute, Kimberly, Combined Locks and other points in-between in Outagamie County Wisconsin. Thanks everyone who helped with this!

Also in this release is another community built improvement - the latest Android "drawer navigation" common in Google's own Android apps.

Thanks everyone!