Course

Mobile Application Development II

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Computing Studies & Information Systems
Course code
CSIS 4175
Credits
3.00
Semester length
15 Weeks
Max class size
35
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Lab
Typically offered
To be determined

Overview

Course description
This course provides students the opportunity to learn and develop advanced Android applications. It covers threading and asynchronous processing, services, connecting to local and remote database, notifications, common Android APIs.

Majority of the coursework would be in the form of programming projects. The students would be given several case studies/projects that they need to analyze, assess/evaluate, design, and implement.
Course content
  1. Threading and Asynchronous Processing
  2. Working with Services
  3. Working with Databases
  4. Building Android Content Providers
  5. Broadcasting and Receiving Intents
  6. Working with notifications
  7. User Interface and Inputs
  8. Using common Android APIs
    • Network
    • Web
    • Multimedia
    • Telephony
  9. Developing Graphics and Animation
  10. Introduction to Android 3D Graphics Application
  11. Extending Android Application Reach
  12. Enabling Application Search
  13. Latest approach to Android development
Learning activities

Lecture, seminars, laboratory assignments, reading, and research

Means of assessment

Labs/Projects                  20% - 30%

Midterm Examination       30% - 40%

Final Examination*          30% - 40%

Total                                    100%

* Practical hands-on computer programming exam

In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).

Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.

 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:

  1. Explain threading and asynchronous processing
  2. Explain the importance of processing asynchrnously
  3. Implement using AsyncTask, Thread, and Loaders class
  4. Explain the Service Lifecycle and determine when to use it
  5. Create and control a Service
  6. Implement a remote interface
  7. Explain how to store, query, and use SQLite
  8. Implement application using SQLite application database and remote database
  9. Design persistent databases
  10. Implement Android Content providers
  11. Explain how Broadcasting and Receiving intents work
  12. Implement sending and receiving broadcasts
  13. Explain and implement some common Android APIs in the following areas
    • Network
    • Web
    • Mutimedia
    • Telephony
  14. Analyze and assess user/project requirements
  15. Design and implement an Android and backend applications
Textbook materials

Annuzzi, Joseph Jr. , Darcey, Lauren, Shane, Conder, Advance Android Application Development, Latest edition, Addison Wesley

 

Requisites

Prerequisites

Min grade C in CSIS 3175

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

 

 

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer details for CSIS 4175
Athabasca University (AU) AU COMP 4XX (3)
College of the Rockies (COTR) COTR COMP 2XX (3)
Coquitlam College (COQU) No credit
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) No credit
Northern Lights College (NLC) No credit
Okanagan College (OC) OC COSC 417 (3)
Simon Fraser University (SFU) No credit
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU COMP 3160 (3)
University Canada West (UCW) No credit
University of Northern BC (UNBC) UNBC CPSC 2XX (3)
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC CSC 2XX (1.5)

Course Offerings

Winter 2025

CRN Days Instructor Status
Maximum seats
35
Currently enrolled
35
Remaining seats:
0
On waitlist
9
Building
New Westminster - North Bldg.
Room
N5107
Times:
Start Time
9:00
-
End Time
11:50
Section notes

CSIS 4175 070 - This section is on Saturdays.