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Mobile Application Development

Course name: Mobile Application Development
Course number: XYZ
Knowledge area: Computer Science and Engineering

Administrative details

Faculty: Computer Science and Engineering
Year of instruction: 4th year of BS
Semester of instruction: 1st semester
No. of Credits: 5 ECTS
Total workload on average: 216 hours overall
Frontal lecture hours: 2 per week.
Frontal tutorial hours: 2 per week.
Lab hours: 2 per week.
Individual lab hours: 0.
Frequency: weekly throughout the semester.
Grading mode: letters: A, B, C, D.

Course outline

Mobile technologies are becoming ubiquitous and used for diverse purpose such as business, industry, education, entertainment and medical. In this course, students will practice with popular mobile application development environments and methods to create mobile applications. The course is designed for undergraduate students of the Software Engineering track to cover aspects that are peculiar to the development of applications on mobile computing platforms and that have not been covered by other courses. Android is the reference for teaching programming techniques and design patterns related to the development of standalone applications and mobile interfaces to enterprise and cloud systems. The course will cover processes, tools and frameworks that are required to develop applications for mobile computing devices.

Expected learning outcomes

Ability to apply general programming knowledge in the field of developing mobile applications
Describing and comparing different mobile application models, architectures and patterns
Applying mobile application models, architectures and patterns to the development of a mobile software application
Describing the components and structure of a mobile development framework (Google’s Android Studio)

Expected acquired core competences

Mobile App design
Construct software for a mobile application
Prototyping
Graphic design for mobile devices
Android

Prerequisites

Introduction to Programming I
Introduction to Programming II
Data Modelling and Databases I
Data Modelling and Databases II
SE Project
Software Architecture

Detailed topics covered in the course

The course covers the following main topics:

Android
Graphic design for mobile devices

Textbook

Reference material

Lecturing and lab slides and material will be provided
Several resources are available online and will be pointed during the course

Required computer resources

Students should have laptops and possibly mobile devices

Evaluation

Mid-term Exam (30%)
Final Exam (40%)
Project (30%)

BSc:MobileApplicationDevelopment

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