Wordle World

Android Project 1 - Wordle World

Submitted by: Merlin Mallory

Wordle World is an android app that recreates a simple version of the popular word game Wordle.

Time spent: 5.5 hours spent in total

Required Features

The following required functionality is completed:

• User has 3 chances to guess a random 4 letter word
• After 3 guesses, user should no longer be able to submit another guess
• After each guess, user sees the "correctness" of the guess
• After all guesses are taken, user can see the target word displayed

The following optional features are implemented:

• User can toggle betweeen different word lists
• User can see the 'correctness' of their guess through colors on the word
• User sees a visual change after guessing the correct word
• User can tap a 'Reset' button to get a new word and clear previous guesses
• User will get an error message if they input an invalid guess
• User can see a 'streak' record of how many words they've guessed correctly.

The following additional features are implemented:

• List anything else that you can get done to improve the app functionality!

• Added game instructions and a background image.

Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

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Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

The biggest challenge was attempting the "User can see the 'correctness' of their guess through colors on the word" stretch goal. I was able to figure out how to validate individual character, but I couldn't figure out how to colorize individual characters in a string. I think it would've been possible to divide the 3 output strings into 4 characters each, but it seemed like a hassle to individually colorize a total of 12 strings. I tried to find an easier way to colorize individual characters in a string, kinda like in HTML/CSS, but the solutions I found via Google were mostly for an older version of Java, instead of Kotlin. So I wasn't able to complete that stretch goal.

License

Copyright [2022] [Merlin Mallory]

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