Mobile Device App Development

Catalog description

This course will provide students with the skills necessary to design, develop, and deploy mobile device applications technology. Emphasis is placed on introducing students to the development environments, software and hardware limitations, and GUI development and event handling concepts when developing code to be executed on hand held devices. This course includes a laboratory component for example using Android/Java and IOS/iPhone/iPad Apps development environments. The successful student will learn the fundamental techniques for building mobile device apps including skills to write networked mobile apps that interact with remote services such as GPS, Bluetooth services, wireless hubs and devices, and web based client/server data systems. Pre-req: C- or higher in CMSC 362