Mobile App Development, BSc (Spring 2020)

Description

The mobile app development has seen significant growth in the recent past, mainly due to the current computational power of modern tablets and mobile phones. The development of mobile applications brings a set of different challenges to the developer, such as where the application will run (hardware specifications) and how is the application performance when running (OS specifications). This course provides fundamental knowledge on how to develop Android applications using both Java and Kotlin programming languages and introduces the following topics:

• The Android application lifecycle;
• The four different types of Android components, namely: (1) activities, (2) services, (3) broadcast receivers, and (4) content providers;
• The design of user interfaces (UI) using layouts, resources, and a set of Android UI controls (e.g., TextView, EditText, Button, Checkbox, Progressbar, among others);
• How to share data between Android components, how to persist data using files and databases, and how to manage the internal and external file storages;
• The use of concurrency to improve speed and performance in Android applications;
• The development of multimedia applications using the built-in camera and audio resources;
• The use of geolocation information to develop location-aware Android applications;
• The use of device sensors (motion, position, environment, and advanced sensors) to collect additional information for Android applications; and
• The security aspects of Android deployment to make an Android application safer.