A Flutter app that allows you to look at historical NHL Playoff data, including game stats, highlights, etc.
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- User can browse playoff seasons 2009-2010 through 2018-2019
- User can toggle the visibility of the different rounds (anywhere between 1 and all of the rounds visible)
- For each playoff series, user can see all games, and game stats such as goals scored, shots on goal, and save percentage
- When available, user can see extended highlights of each game in a series (not available for seasons 2013-2014 and earlier, as the NHL API was missing this data)
- Fast loading speeds, as all playoff data, game data, and video links are saved on the actual device (preprocessed from NHL API and stored in a compact JSON)
- Sleek material UI design
The initial version of this app queried the statsapi.web.nhl.com API in order to retrieve playoff data for the desired season. There was about a ~2 second delay in loading a different playoff season. I wanted to query game data as well, but found that loading the desired data using queries would take several extra seconds (loading 7 games in a single series is tens of megabytes, as the server returns too much data and at least two different queries are needed to obtain game stats and highlights). I created a Python script that queries the NHL API and generates a JSON object with all the relevant information pre-loaded (game data including links to extended highlight videos, playoff data, etc). Generating this JSON takes about a minute per season. Then, this JSON is used by the app to display relevant playoff bracket data.
Detailed information about the design is available in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.
To download on Android, simply check out the current release.
Alternatively (this is actually the only choice for iOS), simply download the repo, and install Flutter if you don't already have it installed. Run flutter run in cmd/terminal, and you should be good to go!