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Week 1 - Introduction To Mobile App Development

This document provides an introduction to the CPE3106 Mobile Application Development course offered in the third year, first semester. The course aims to teach all aspects of developing applications for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows phones. Students will learn to design user interfaces, store data, incorporate multimedia features, use location services and more. The objectives are to train students to design, develop, test and install mobile apps. By the end of the course students should gain competencies in requirements gathering, prototyping, coding, testing and deploying mobile applications.

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Week 1 - Introduction To Mobile App Development

This document provides an introduction to the CPE3106 Mobile Application Development course offered in the third year, first semester. The course aims to teach all aspects of developing applications for Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows phones. Students will learn to design user interfaces, store data, incorporate multimedia features, use location services and more. The objectives are to train students to design, develop, test and install mobile apps. By the end of the course students should gain competencies in requirements gathering, prototyping, coding, testing and deploying mobile applications.

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EEE2105 - CPE3106 Mobile Application

Development
Introduction
24 August 2023

School of Engineering and Technology


LECTURE CONTENT

 Course Outline
 Introduction to mobile Applications

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Course code Course name Year Semester C CU


H
CPE3106 Mobile Application Development 3 1 60 4

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This Course introduces all aspects of Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows
Phone application development in an easy-to-understand approach. This course
will help students learn how to design the user interface; persistently store data;
design mobile applications that can display pictures and menus; develop mobile
applications to send messages and e-mails; work with location services and
maps; run background services in the mobile applications; develop applications
that support the audio, video, and camera of a mobile device-and much more. It
explores all these concepts with appropriate examples and executable
applications.

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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The objective of the course is to train the person in such a way so that
he/she may be able to design, develop, test and install mobile
applications.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:


By the end of the Course, students should gain the following
competencies:
 Requirement Gathering
 Mock-ups and prototypes
 Design of mobile applications
 Coding mobile applications
 Unit Testing/Debugging of mobile applications
 Deployment/ Installations

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NOT THIS

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BUT THIS

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ESSENCE OF A MOBILE DEVICE

• (Potentially) available to serve everywhere, any time.


• Interwoven into daily life – live, work, play, study
• Represents and intimately “knows” the user
– Much more than just a small computer, it represents the user
• Brings in outside world: sensing, location,
communication

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The Mobile revolution

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The Mobile revolution


 Smart phone units sold actually surpassed PC units in Q4 2010 (IDC
worldwide quarterly tracker – January 2011, 100 million sold vs 92
million PCs)
 The total number of smart phones sold between 2007 and 2022 is 1.3
billion (Statistica)
• Now the dominant end-user device
 ~ 30% of Uganda own a smartphone (June 2021):
https://uccinfoblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/new-
report-29m-use-phones-22m-on-internet/

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iPhone – game changing

T he iPhone went on s ale in


the United States on June 29,
2007

This started to
fundamentally change
the way people interact
with phones

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The rise of smart gadgets

Now designing for mobile


means not only phones but also
tablets, smart TVs and smart
watches

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Mobile App Design – What is it

The history of phone platforms


has been more diverse than that
of PC

Notably, over the last few years


the form factor has moved
from physical keyboard to
“touch” and there is a demand
for more services

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Mobile App Design – Where do we start?

1. Choose an SDK
2. Learn an SDK
3. Design and develop
4. Publish to relevant App Store
5. Promote!

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Mobile Phone OS Market Share in 2022

Source: Line Corp

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• Which OS do you prefer: iOS or Android?


• What’s your favorite mobile app?
– What do you like most about it?
• What’s your least favorite mobile app?
– What do you dislike about it?
• How do mobile apps connect to Internet-
based services for end users? (Cost
implications)
• How does one capture data from on-device
sensors (e.g., GPS, accelerometer)?
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Application Development Support

• Object-Oriented Languages
– iOS: Swift
– Android: Java/Kotlin
• Cross-platform frameworks:
– Flutter, Xamarin, Titanium, PhoneGap, …
– Scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby)
• C and C++ (native code)
• Integrated into mobile app dev. frameworks

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Mobile App. Development Challenges

• Competitive, fluid vendor landscape (Apple, Android


consortium incl. Amazon, RIM, HP) means apps need
to be multi-platform for wide adoption
• No “standard” device (iOS, Windows Phone devices?)
• Low bandwidth input (in most cases; what about
tablets?)
• Unreliability in connectivity and device (network
access, power, ambient light, noise, at least for now)
• Integration tradeoffs with cloud and enterprise services

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