Mobile Technologies
Assignment
Proportion of unit assessment:
Application and Tool: Android and Android Studio
Task: Design and implement an Android application with the requirements listed below.
Requirements:Your app should implement the following
1. Container: At least 1 container from the following lists is used: RadioGroup, ListView, GridView, ExpandableListView, ScrollView, and HorizontalScrollView. The container contains at least 5list items and each of these items will start another activity when the user touches on that item.
2. Widget: At least 4 widgets (from the list of Widgets on page 2) are used to display data for the container and/or the list and/or the list items mentioned in Requirement 1.
3. Text Field: At least 2 text fields (from the list of Text Fields on page 2) are used to display data for the containerand/or the list and/or the list items mentioned in Requirement 1.
4. Activity: At least 3 activities are available, for example main activity, activity for the list of items, and activity for details of each item in that list. Navigation between these activities needs to be provided.
5. Just one database that contains all data for the list, list items, widgets, text fields and activities mentioned in the above requirements.
6. Your program reads data from the database and displays the data on the list, list items, widgets, text fields and activities mentioned in the above requirements.
7. Your program allows user to enter new data to create a new itemand add this item to the current list, edit an existing list item and save the changes to the database, and delete an existing list item from the database.
8. Action bar
9. Playing back a video [1 mark] and displaying an animation.
10. Graphical user interface (GUI) design: layout, colours, user friendly, and navigation.
11. Your report only needs to show
• The selected container, widgets, and text fields
• How to use your appand screenshots for demos, and
• (From Learning outcomes in the unit outline) Your Evaluate modern mobile technologies and software development tools for mobile devices.
12. Handling all exceptions (-1mark for each exception found at runtime).
13. Your Android project must be created by youusing Android Studio. Any Android project converted from Eclipse or non-Android Studio project is not accepted. You cannot use an existing Android Studio project from others to implement your project (-20marks)
Examples:
• App for your favourite hotels (hotel name, description, images, map address, direction on map)
• App for your favourite restaurants (restaurant name, description, images, map address, direction on map)
• App for your photo album (list of albums, list of photos in each album, display single photo with caption and geolocation)
Hints will be provided in lectures and tutorials in Weeks 2-7. Please review UC Student Academic Integrity Policy in the unit outline and the following website to avoid plagiarism