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Introduction To Mobile Apps

Mobile apps must be designed for varied devices with different capabilities and form factors. Development faces challenges like inconsistent platforms, limited screens/bandwidth, and unreliable connectivity. Frameworks like Android provide built-in services for GUIs, device access, and networking, while add-ons exist for maps, databases, and web views. IDEs offer testing, profiling, source control integration, and emulators to aid the development process across platforms.

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Introduction To Mobile Apps

Mobile apps must be designed for varied devices with different capabilities and form factors. Development faces challenges like inconsistent platforms, limited screens/bandwidth, and unreliable connectivity. Frameworks like Android provide built-in services for GUIs, device access, and networking, while add-ons exist for maps, databases, and web views. IDEs offer testing, profiling, source control integration, and emulators to aid the development process across platforms.

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Introduction to Mobile Apps

CSE 5236: Mobile Application Development


Instructor: Adam C. Champion
Course Coordinator: Dr. Rajiv Ramnath

Essence of A Mobile Device?


(Potentially) available to serve everywhere, any time.
Interwoven into daily life live, work, play, study
Represents and intimately knows the user
Much more than just a small computer, it represents the user

Brings in the outside world sensing, location,


communication
Now the dominant end-user device
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/business/mobile-apps-driverapid-changes-in-search-technology.html?ref=technology

Varied Shapes, Sizes, Capabilities

Mobile Application Development Challenges


Competitive, fluid vendor landscape (Apple, Android
consortium incl. Amazon, RIM, HP) means apps need to be
multi-platform for wide adoption
No standard device (what about iOS, Windows Phone
devices?)
Low bandwidth input (in most cases what about tablets?)
Limited screen size (tablets?)
Unreliability in connectivity and device (network access,
power, ambient light, noise, at least for now)
Integration tradeoffs with cloud and enterprise services

Application Development Support


3rd Generation Object-Oriented Languages
(iOS Objective C, Android Java,
Windows Phone C# )
Scripting languages (JavaScript, Ruby)
Cross-platform frameworks Titanium,
RhoMobile, Xamarin, PhoneGap
C and C++
Integrated into frameworks specifically
for mobile application development
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Framework Support (e.g. Android)

Blue background:
Java
Other colors:
C/C++

Framework Capabilities and Add-Ons


Built-In Services:
GUI, OS services (file I/O, threads, device management),
Graphics, Device access (GPS, camera, music and vido
players, sensors), Web-services, Networking, XML
processing, standard language libraries

Add-ons:
Maps
Database support (SQLite)
WebKit

IDE Support
Open IDEs Eclipse/Android Studio for
Android)
Proprietary (Xcode for iOS, MS Visual Studio)
Testing tools (test management, unit tests)
Performance profiling tools
SCM integration (Git, SVN, CVS)
Software emulators
Sensor injection (GPS, accelerometer, others)
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Thank You

Questions and comments?

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