Course Description : This course introduces mobile application development frameworks, architectures, design and engineering issues, techniques, methodologies for mobile application development.

Course Objective : The main objective of this course is to provide knowledge of understanding characterization and architecture with designing and developing of mobile applications.

Course Contents:

Laboratory Works:

The laboratory should contain all the features mentioned in a course, which should include

Language overview (Java, Object oriented concept)

Basic Concept of Android application architecture

• source, resource folder concept
• Terminology for android

Concept of android Layouts

• Concept of Linear layout, Relative layout, toolbar
• Concepts of list view, recycler view, grid view, scroll view, view pager, tab Layout
• Create form and form validation
• Alert Dialogs, Toast
• Popup

Shared Preference

Menu

• Option menu, context menu

Introduction to Activity, Fragment

• Simple activity information
• Working with intents

Theme and Style

Database

• Simple overview to database (simple query)
• SQLite overview

API Implementation

• Working with volley
• Working with Retrofit Advanced
• Thread
• JSON Parsing
• Google Play Service (Maps, GPS)
• FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging)

Text Books:

• 1. Mobile Computing Principles: Designing and Developing Mobile Applications with UML and XML, Reza B’Far, Cambridge University Press, 2005
• 2. Mobile Design and Development, Brian Fling, O’Reilly, 2009

Reference Books: