Advanced Mobile Application Design and Development

This class will build on the knowledge presented in the introductory course and focus on key topics relevant across implementation platforms. These topics include introduction to data handling and connectivity via SOAP or REST to backend services potentially hosted in a cloud environment. We will discuss design approaches to efficiently reach a large segment in the mobile market. We will contrast browser based approaches, upcoming cross-platform development tools, as well a hybrids that can very well take advantage of underlying phone functionality including GEO positioning, accelerometer, and rich gesture based UI handling. As time permits, we will discuss approaches to promote mobile applications in the market, including social networking software integration with Facebook and Twitter. Prerequisites: Programming experience in object-oriented programming languages like Objective-C, Java, or C# is not required but of advantage to digest programming samples.