A detailed specification of the Mobile Application Development assignment.

Here you'll find a brief talk about myself, my background and what this Module will cover in the different sections.

Here we discuss app design in general, the frameworks available to the app developer and the different approaches that can be followed in the design and development of a mobile app.

Here we explore the general context of the android User Experience, it's role in the mobile platform space and the components that make up the the system. We are particularly interested in the version numbers and how version in general is managed.

Here we take a closer look at the Android eco-system and the components that make up this system. We are particularly interested in both the android activity and fragment life-cycles and the android components that we utilise to build an android app.

Here we discuss app design in general, the frameworks available to the app developer and the different approaches that can be followed in the design and development of a mobile app.

Here we investigate some of the more advanced UI artifacts used in the design of android apps and focus on the android UI guidelines for effective navigation.

In this section we take a brief look at persistence within an Android app (via SQLite) but focus mainly on how the Android OS implements multithreading and deals with running tasks in the background. We also investigate the different approaches available to the developer for making http calls and API requests.

Here we discuss the steps necessary to integrate Google Sign-in into an Android app, using our Case Study (CoffeeMate) and the labs to demonstrate.

Here we discuss the steps necessary to integrate Google Location Services into an Android app, using our Case Study (CoffeeMate) and the labs to demonstrate.

Here we discuss the steps necessary to integrate Google Maps into an Android app, using our Case Study (CoffeeMate) and the labs to demonstrate.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at brief history and introduction to this platform.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at one of the most common services provided by the platform - Realtime Database.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at another of the most common services provided by the platform - Authentication.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at another of the most common services provided by the platform - Storage.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at another of the most common services provided by the platform - Hosting.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at one of the less common services provided by the platform - Remote Config.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at one of the less common services provided by the platform - Crash Reporting.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at one of the less common services provided by the platform - Cloud Messaging.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at one of the less common services provided by the platform - Test Lab.

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that began as a startup and grew into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform. Here we look at some of the extra services provided by the platform such as App Indexing, Analytics etc.

Here we take a look at the current, and more importantly, some of the future trends in Android technology.

This simple application is already composed of a range of classes related to each other in via different types of relationships. We can capture this design graphically in UML, exploring the true nature of the structure of the app.

Android introduced a new user interface language to the world, one that is gradually evolving in flexibility and expressiveness. Here we review the principle elements of this language and how its is incorporated into attractive and usable applications

Here we take a quick look at JSON and how it can be used as a format for transferring data to and from an Android app.