ID2216 Developing Mobile Applications 7.5 credits

Lectures, Labs and seminars. Half of the course consists of lectures and laboratory work in the above areas. Some areas are extensions of the above areas and are studied individually for students who want a higher grade. The second half consists of a project with seminars. The course is laboratory- and programming intensive.

The course covers modern technologies to develop mobile applications and services and covers the following parts:

• mobile context and use
• development of mobile applications for a specific platform
• mobile web applications.

We will mainly build and test applications for smart telephones but the applications can also be executed with no or small changes on more powerful units such as tablets, digital TV-sets, cameras, industrial computers and information systems for cars.

The course covers three main challenges when developing mobile applications:
(i) to integrate and streamline external services for new mobile applications and new user experiences
(ii) to handle different properties between different units
(iii) to understand how the users' requirements and new business models create successful mobile applications and services.

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

• choose appropriate technical platforms or technical frameworks to create useful, data-persistent, interactive mobile web and platform-specific applications
• program interactive mobile applications according to Model-View-Controller or related architectures
• program systems with good use qualities that read data from, and sends data to, web APIs
• assess and improve the usability of existing interactive mobile applications
• cooperate with others to implement interactive mobile applications

in order to

• be able to compare technologies that are used for development of mobile applications
• be able to use mobile services for authentication, positioning and similar services
• be able to choose appropriate technical solutions to develop mobile applications and services
• be able to implement mobile applications by using appropriate tools.

Knowledge and skills in programming, 6 credits, equivalent to completed course DD1337/DD1310-DD1319/DD1321/DD1331/DD100N/ID1018.

Basic knowledge in Java programming.

Some basic SQL knowledge to query a database, is good for general orientation, but not necessary to follow the course.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• LAB1 - Laborative work, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO1 - Project work, 4.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

In oral examinations, each student should be able to give an account of the whole assignment and the whole solution.

Cristian Bogdan

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Students who have not passed earlier course versions are examined through supplementary assignments as agreed with examiner.

In this course, the EECS code of honor applies, see: http://www.kth.se/en/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex.