Mobile Application Development II

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Course
CSIS 4175
Discontinued
No
Course Code
CSIS 4175
Descriptive
Mobile Application Development II
Department
Computing Studies & Information Systems
Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Credits
3.00
Start Date
End Term
202010
PLAR
No
Semester Length
15
Max Class Size
35
Contact Hours
Lecture : 2 Hours per week Seminar/Lab: 2 Hours per week Total : 4 Hours per week Number of Weeks per Semester: 15 Weeks X 4 Hours per Week = 60 Hours
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Lab
Learning Activities

Lecture, seminars, laboratory assignments, reading, and research

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 Outcomes

The 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
Means of Assessment

Labs/Projects                  20% - 30%

Midterm Examiniation*    30% - 40%

Final Examination*          30% - 40%

Total                                    100%

**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).

 

Textbook Materials

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

 

Prerequisites

Min grade C in CSIS 3175

Corequisites

nil

Equivalencies

nil

Which Prerequisite

nil