Mobile App Development, BSc (Spring 2019)

Description

This course gives a fundamental introduction to Java development of apps for the Android platform.

The following topics will be introduced:

• The four fundamental Android components (activities, services, content providers and broadcast receivers) and intents
• Designing user interfaces using layouts and resources
• Working with files and databases on a mobile device
• The Android life cycles and thread model
• Using built-in camera, sensors and libraries/tasks e.g. calendar and contacts
• Mobile/server communication including RESTful APIs and JSON
• Android libraries for creating location aware apps.

Furthermore, Androids threading model will be introduced and related to threading and concurrency in general.