Mobile- and Web-based Software

Lecture

Content

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Web and mobile client development with modern design patterns. Overview of the common features of the mobile platforms. New mobile devices special hardware’s: Touch screen, fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, camera, different commination technologies, etc. Differences between the development for PC and mobile eminent. Investigation of the mobile devices computational capacities. The main characters of the mobile market.

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First steps of application development for mobile devices. Overview of application development for mobile devices: programming languages, application libraries, development tools (SDK, Emulator)

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Basics of Java Me platform, mobile application life cycle and application state model. Application sate switching, differences between foreground and background processes. 

4

Application development for Java Me platform. Presenting the steps of designing and developing a basic UI.

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The principles of persistent data storing on Java Me platform. Key-value based data storing. Data filtering searching, ordering. File handling.

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The principles of network communication on Java Me platform. Presenting the Generic Connection Framework: basics short- and long-term communication, handling HTTP connections.

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Presenting the Android platform and its structure. Compiling methods. Structure of an Android project. Development of basic UI .

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Presenting the modern application lifecycle on Android platform. Android components and their roles: Activity, Service, Content Provider, Broadcast Receiver.

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Network communication and location basics on Android platform. Overview of android application testing.

10

Prototype-development for mobile devices with Python. Basics of Python.

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Presenting the available multimedia features of the mobile platforms. UI development with Python.

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Data and network handling with Python. Presenting the features of the in built multimedia devices. Picture handling with Python. In application camera usage.

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Data sharing with Bluetooth. Accessing online services. Data download from a remote server. Complex prototype development techniques.

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Basics of the web based applications. Client-server based network topology with HTTP (session, cookie, etc.) Presenting the concept of the dynamic web.

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HTML basics: language, common tools. CSS: usage of style sheets in html.

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Basics of JavaScript: language, usage of forms and validation.

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Introduction of the HTML DOM: frequently used HTML and JavaScript solutions, basics of JQuery. Mobile Web.

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Development of dynamic webpages: AJAX. Rest communication. Typical usage of JSON. Cross-domain policy.

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Cloud services in mobile environment: IaaS, Paas, Baas, Saas

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Basics of cross platform application development: cross platform application lifecycle.

Laboratory exercise

Content

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Basic mobile application development with network communication on Java Me platform

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Application development on Android platform.

3

Quick prototype-development with Python in SL4A environment.

4

Client-server network topology in practice. Simple website development. HTTP traffic monitoring.

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Web page development for mobile devices with the usage of: CSS, JavaScript, JQuery.