CS 342: Mobile Application Development

Spring 2015

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Weeks 1, 2

Getting started with Android

• [Do by 4/1] git, bitbucket, slack
• [Do by 4/1] Set up Android Studio
• [Due 11:59PM 4/9] A first Android app
• [Do by 4/9] Partner survey for iOS project

Week 3

Getting started with iOS

• [Do by 4/10] Setting up Xcode Bring questions to class, and/or post to slack
• [Due 11:59PM 4/21] A first iOS app
• Apple's introduction to Swift
• This tutorial from Apple is a nice starting point for iOS. It includes this intro to Storyboards, which can be pretty tricky to get used to. raywenderlich.com also has a good Storyboards tutorial.
• Swift properties (both "stored" and "computed")
• A few links describing Swift optionals.
• Auto Layout tutorial, and another tutorial, and the official Apple guide to Auto Layout.

Week 4

Final project: meeting your clients

• [Due 5:00PM 4/20] Form a team and express project preferences
• Your project teams
• [Email sent by 8:30AM Friday, 4/24; meeting report by 5:00PM Friday, 5/1] Meet your client(s)
• [Due noon, 4/27] If you're working on iOS and want to test and debug on your iOS device, fill out this survey by Monday so Mike can get you hooked up to Carleton's developer team and get your device into a provisioning profile.
• [Read daily until done] If you're developing for iOS, read the iOS Human Interface Guidelines (also known as "the HIG"). For Android, read the Android Design pages. The HIG is famous even outside iOS development, Android Design less so. But Google's move to "Material Design" is potentially interesting, and certainly indicates an increased interest in visual design.

Week 5

Final project: mockups, navigation, & prioritized feature lists

• [Now] Read this short introduction to user stories
• [Bring first draft to class 5/1; turn in 11:59PM 5/6] Mockups, navigation, and prioritized feature lists

Weeks 6, 7

Continuing development & status report

• [Due 9:50AM 5/18] Status report
• [Read as needed] One of many handy guides to basic UML

Week 8

Code reviews

• [Do by 5/19] Mid-project status

Weeks 9, 10

Presentations, wrapping it up

• [In class 6/1, 6/3] Presentations
• [Due 5:00PM 6/8] Final deliverables