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Class Hours: TR, 12:30pm-1:45pm Class Location: Phelps 2516 Instructor: Tobias Höllerer Office Hours: Thu, 3:30pm-4:30pm, or by appointment Office: 2155 Harold Frank Hall, (805) 284 9395 e-mail: holl@cs... Discussion/Lab: F, 12:00pm-12:50pm OR 1:00pm-1:50pm, Phelps 3526 TA: Samuel Dong e-mail: samuel_dong@umail... Group Tutor: John Alexander
e-mail: jta00@umail... Office hours: Samuel: M, noon-1:30pm (TA trailer, 934, by Phelps). John: F, 12-1pm (Phelps 3526), F 2-3pm (CSIL)
This course provides an introduction to developing applications for the Android mobile ecosystem.
Over the past 20 years, the use of information technology has undergone a clear transition from stationary office and desktop computing to mobile computing. This development was accompanied by the emergence of networked and social computing. The Sales of smartphones and tablet computers have by far outpaced the sales of conventional desktop PCs for years now. The way the young generation today obtains computer literacy has changed: Apps and cloud computing have replaced desktop computing in many cases. Computing has shifted from office or home office work to an anywhere-and-anytime activity.
This course aims to prepare students for this extraordinary shift in commercial and societal focus. The possibilities of mobile device software development are endless. In this introductory course, we get your curiosity started and prepare you for more advanced app development.
Students will apply their gained knowledge in a series of practical assignments using the Android ecosystem that highlight selected portions of the software design cycle, as well as familiarize them with sound programming practices and effective tools and techniques to create successful applications. The course will also touch upon novel interaction concepts that go beyond what we normally see in today's mobile apps.
This class teaches the theory and practice of effective software design for Android. You will learn about principles, procedures, and programming approaches. You will create, iterate, and evaluate interaction designs.
As this is only the second time this course is offered, the exact course requirements will emerge over the first week, once the instructor has been able to form an idea about students' backgrounds and expectations.
There will definitely be a series of design and implementation assignments that lead up to individual or group class projects. There _may_ be one exam (in week 8 or 9). We will continuously assign reading and tutorial material from online resources, which is supposed to help your design efforts and to stimulate class participation. Here is how your final grade will be determined:
In case you disagree with any grade, submit your grievance in writing
(email or paper) to the grader responsible, explaining and documenting your
case.
All assignments are due at midnight on the scheduled due date. To make
the deadlines more manageable, each student will be allowed
four "late days" during the quarter for which lateness will not be penalized. Late days
may be applied to all assignments, including design sketches and
programming assignments, but not the final project! Your
late days may be used as you see fit -- one
or multiple per assignment -- but once you
used a late day it's good and gone, you cannot reapply it to another
assignment. Anything turned in after 12:00:00am until
midnight the next day is one day late. Every day thereafter that an assignment
is late, including weekends and holidays, counts as an additional late day.
Absolutely no late work will be accepted after
the deadline if you have used up all your late days. If you're not done on time
you must turn in what you have to receive partial credit. There will be no
exceptions from this rule. Please make sure you understand this policy.
When making use of your late days, the online submission provides the timestamp
that counts.
We will strictly enforce UCSB's academic misconduct policies. We use electronic tools to detect plagiarism among submitted homework solutions and sources from the internet. Read these guidelines before beginning each programming assignment. Any form of plagiarism, collusion, or cheating will result in an "F" in this course and may result in suspension from UCSB for two quarters. When in doubt about any forms of receiving help on your assignments, ask us!
I would like the course to be informative and enjoyable. Let us know what you find just, good and interesting about the course. Let us know sooner if you feel something could be improved. See us, send an e-mail, or leave us a note.
See the handout column in the class schedule!
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Class |
Date | Assigned Reading |
Topics | Handout | HW out |
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1 | C1 | Tue | April 4 |
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Introduction,
Motivation, Class Requirements, Policies Android: Overview, Historic Context, Discussion |
S0: Java Review | Student Questionnaire | |
C2 | Thu | April 6 | Android Studio Hello Android Virtual Machines |
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D1 | Fri | April 7 | H1 | Update Nexus Tablets HW1 Q&A |
H2:
AS Designer Chapter H3: Interactive UI Design in AS H4: Programmatical UI Creation in AS |
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2 | C3 | Tue | April 11 | H2, H3, H4 (HW1) |
Activities |
H5: Android Event Handling Chapter | ||
C4 | Thu | April 13 | H5 | Android Event Handling Homework 2
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S3: Layouts (before ConstraintLayout) |
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D2 | Fri | April 14 | Homework 2 CanvasView
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3 | C5 | Tue | April 18 | StatePreferences 2D graphics
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S5: StatePreferences S6: 2D Graphics S7: ConstraintLayout |
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C6 | Thu | April 20 | Fragments Master / Detail View 2D Graphics (cont.)
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H9: Fragments & Master/Detail Flow H10: Intents |
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D3 | Fri | April 21 | Homework 3 Permission Handling |
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HW 3 | HW 2 | ||
4 | C7 | Tue | April 25 | Intents Speech Processing Media Playback |
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C8 | Thu | April 27 | HW 3 Details: |
S11: Internet Resource Retrieval | ||||
D4 | Fri | April 28 |
Quarter Projects
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5 | Mon | May 1 | HW3 | |||||
C9 | Tue | May 2 | Storage Camera HW 4 |
S12: Storage S13: Camera |
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C10 | Thu | May 4 | App Bar Databases Lists CardViews and Recyclers |
S14: App Bar S15: Databases H11: SQLite and Tables S16: Lists |
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D5 | Fri | May 5 | HW 4 Hints: |
HW4 | Project Idea | |||
6 | C11 | Tue | May 09 |
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C12 | Thu | May 11 | HW4 Q&A Project Discussion
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D6 | Fri | May 12 | Google Maps API key Location Spoofing |
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7 | Mon | May 15 | ||||||
C13 | Tue | May 16 | Google Maps Sensors GPS Handling |
S17: Maps and GPS S18: Sensors |
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C14 | Thu | May 18 |
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S19: Services S20: Geofences |
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D7 | Fri | May 19 | More HW5 Pointers |
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HW5 | |||
8 | ||||||||
C15 | Tue | May 23 | Notifications RESTful APIs |
S21: Notifications S22: RESTful APIs
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C16 | Thu | May 25 |
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S23: Remote Databases | ||||
D8 | Fri | May 26 | Tips & Tricks Android SW Patterns
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9 | Mon | May 29 | HW5 | |||||
C17 | Tue | May 30 | Useful Android Libraries React.Native Projects Discussion
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S24: Libraries S25: React Native |
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C18 | Thu | June 1 |
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D9 | Fri | June 2 | Projects |
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10 | C19 | Tue | June 6 |
AOSP: Android Open Source Localization
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S26: Localization S27: NDK, Getting Started S28: AOSP
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C18 | Thu | June 8 |
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Fri | June 9 | No Discussion | ||||||
11 | Final Slot |
Mon |
June 12 | 12-3pm |
Project Presentations |
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Wed | June 14 |
Project Materials Due |
Project |