Introduction to Mobile Application Development

Catalog description

This course focuses on the development of applications for different mobile platforms including phones, tablets, and telehealth devices with various sensors. The software/hardware codesign approach of application development including time and performance optimization and trade-off will be emphasized. Students will learn how to design and develop applications for the Android platform, and understand the parallel process for iPhone development. Covered topics include user interface and architecture design, operating systems, storing and retrieving data, distributed computing, mobile hardware, network/web access, and multimedia.