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Catalog description:

Implementation of cross-platform applications for mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. Programming languages, development environments, debugging, testing, and application design. Development of applications that: provide an effective graphical interface, access internet resources, permanently store data, access the device’s hardware, and display graphical elements.

Prerequisites: 

CSE 278

Required topics (and weeks per topic):

• Introduction to Mobile Applications (0.5)
  • Issues related to mobile applications: limited storage, minimize communication and power consumption, etc.
  • Portable applications
• Tools for Mobile Application Development (2.0)
  • IDE for application development and simulation
  • Programming language(s) for mobile development
  • Debugging mobile applications
  • Testing GUIs
• Design and Implementation of Mobile Applications (5.0)
  • Controls for user input
  • Specifying GUIs using code and markup languages
  • User interfaces for effective navigation
  • Events and event handlers
  • Software design patterns for supporting GUI development
  • Asynchronous processing for responsive interfaces
  • Using 3rd party software
• Permanent storage (2.5)
  • Preferences
  • File system
  • Databases
• Connected applications (2.0)
  • JSON
  • Using web services
• Accessing Device Hardware (1.0)
  • Devices: accelerometer, GPS, camera
  • Accessing the devices from an application
• Quizzes (1.0)

Learning Outcomes:

• Utilize modern techniques to implement cross platform mobile applications
  • The student can use an IDE to develop, debug, and test mobile applications
  • The student can develop cross platform applications that provide behavior unique to the runtime platform
  • The student can use software frameworks for testing GUI applications
  • The student can compare and contrast the benefits and trade-offs of cross platform development relative to developing native applications
• Develop effective and responsive mobile applications
  • identify the important issues relevant to mobile applications
  • utilize common graphical elements to acquire user input and display data (e.g., labels, button, list box, etc)
  • develop mobile applications that support different form factors (e.g., phone or tablet) and orientations (e.g., landscape or portrait)
  • utilize software design patterns commonly used in mobile application development
  • describe and utilize common navigation patterns for constraining user input (e.g., tabbed, carousel, hierarchical, etc)
  • use asynchronous processing to provide a responsive interface
  • identify the basic security aspects of mobile applications
• Implement mobile applications that permanently store data.
  • store information in a local database
  • store information in the app’s file system
  • store information in the app’s preferences
• Implement mobile applications that use internet resources
  • use a webservice to retrieve information from an internet resource
  • use a standard data interchange format (e.g., JSON) to receive data from an external source
• Implement mobile applications that access the device’s hardware (e.g., GPS, accelerometer, camera, etc.)