This update mostly includes improvements related to sorting and filtering the main dining location list, including:
- Favorites! You can mark locations as your favorites by swiping them on the list or pressing the star button on their detail page. Favorites are sorted to the top.
- "Hide Closed Locations" has been moved to a dedicated sort/filter button in the bottom left corner. This looks best on iOS 26+, where it sits nicely to the left of the search bar.
- Added an "Open Locations First" option to sort open locations above closed locations, if you want to know what's open quicker without entirely hiding closed locations.
Other improvements:
- Made most asynchronous code properly async instead of bouncing between DispatchQueue.main.async{} and .sync{}.
- Added a timer to refresh open statuses every 3 seconds while on the main list, so that when the time changes the open statuses will change appropriately. It seemed silly to force you to fetch the data again just to do a quick "hey is current time in range?".
- Made date formatter shared so there aren't 3 separate copies of it.
The details page for a location now shows an indicator of how busy a location is based on data from the RIT maps API, which kindly offers the current and maximum occupancies for locations around campus. This is displayed the same way that the RIT website displays it, with 0-5 person icons that are filled in based on the percentage occupied the location is. This API can be *really* slow sometimes, so this data is fetched indepdently of the main load, because it could end up massively slowing down the app to not display the main info until after the occupancy data loads. A small spinner is used to indicate that occupancy data is loading, and the indicators are partially transparent until the data is loaded.
Also fixed a bug where locations with multiple opening periods could have exceptions for the same time period, resulting in duplicated time slots. Thanks Brick City Cafe! This is fixed by making sure that times are not already present in the openTimes/closeTimes arrays before adding them.
