Mobile Application Development: A New Trend in The Computing Patterns of Our Time

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General Overview
Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
How to Promote your app
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Mobile Application Development

A new trend in the computing patterns of our time
Muhammad Hassan Khan Syed Usama Khalid Syed Muhammad Raza

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
Dec 21, 2011
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General Overview
Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
Q&A
General Overview Introductions Motivation A Flat World Android vs. iOS A Comparison Android, The Basics What is Android Android Architecture Available Libraries Alternatives to Java How to Promote your app Distinguishing your app Quality and Usability of service Q&A
Outline Introductions
General Overview
Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
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Introductions
Who are we? How this came to be... Tell us about yourself
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Motivation
Desktop apps, mobile apps, and web-apps Around 4.5 billion Cell-phones in the world Around 1 billion Laptops Another 4 billion foreseeable users to join in the next decade Mobile apps are a $4 billion industry, expected to reach $8.3 billion by 2014 Cell-phones are getting faster and smarter
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A Flat World
The new world is at and is getting atter Markets are opening up and getting democratized A new world of content creators, knowledge workers, and service providers How do we contribute as Teachers, as Scientists, and as Developers
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A Comparison
Total devices in the Field New Devices sold daily Smart-phone ownership Tablet ownership App downloads Source: CNET
Apple iOS 250 million 367,000 27.7% 66.6% 31%
Google Android 190 million 500,000 43.7% 26.9% 44%
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iOS or Android
To android or not to android, that might not be the question Most small to medium apps can be ported easily Tools promising compile-once-run-anywhere An artist/graphic designer, a developer, a design architect and youre in business
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My personal favourite...
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Apple has you under a platform lock down I have to pay Apple to install my own app on my own device The Android developer community is much more open A lot of open-source content available for Java Dont need an Apple machine to develop Much cheaper to develop and deploy for the Android platform SL4A!
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Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
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What is Android
What is Android
A project of the Open Handset Alliance Based on the linux 2.6 kernel Has its own Java Virtual Machine implementation Has multitasking and background services Core and user developed apps have equal access Open-source and fully customizable
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Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
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Android Architecture
Android Architecture
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Android vs. iOS
Android, The Basics
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Available Libraries
Available Libraries
System C library Media libraries Surface manager SGL 3D libraries Freetype SQLite
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Android vs. iOS
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Alternatives to Java
Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) Supports:

Python Perl JRuby Lua Beanshell Javascript Tcl Shell
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An example
Author: Damon Kohler damonkohler@gmail.com import android droid = android.Android() message = droid.getInput(TTS, What would you like to say?).result droid.ttsSpeak(message)
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Distinguishing your app
Distinguishing your app
Carve out your own niche Use electronic word-of-mouth in the social sphere Localize! Make good use of new opportunities and possibilities
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Quality and Usability of service
A few words on Design Principles
80/20 Rule Accessibility Aesthetic Usability Relationship Make use of archetypes Information Chunking
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Quality and Usability of service
A few words on Design Principles contd.
Use classical conditioning Use color with care Consistent User Interface Design Activity Cost-Benet Adaptive Designs
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Android vs. iOS

Android, The Basics

How to Promote your app