TTC8450 Mobile Application Development
General information
| Name | Mobile Application Development |
| Code | TTC8450 |
| Target Group | Bachelor's Degree |
| Number of ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Recommended Year of Study | 3rd year |
| Language | English |
| Prerequisites and co-requisites | Basics of JavaScript |
| Grading | 0-5 |
| Communication | Dedicated Microsoft Teams channel: #Mobile Programming @ JAMK/IT |
| Lecturer | Pasi Manninen |
| firstname.lastname@jamk.fi |
Introduction
Welcome to the Mobile Application Development course! In this course student will learn the basics of the mobile application developing with popular Cross-Platform Tools. The student can design, implement and publish mobile applications to mobile devices. Course contains lectures and exercises.
The student understands the prospects of different mobile technologies for implementation of functional applications in mobile devices. The student is able to implement small-scale applications for various mobile platforms using various mobile technologies.
The topics discussed are commonly and currently used cross-platform mobile technologies that can be used to implement applications for various mobile platforms.
Tip
This course contains a lot of exercises, so the main goal is to learn by doing!
Personal and group guidance
You can discuss with other students or teacher with Teams at #Mobile Programming @ JAMK/IT. This way we can discuss one on one about any issues you might face during the course or you can try to find help from other students. Discussions can be done on Zoom, Teams or even face to face if the current situation allows it.
Items of assessment
Exercises
Exercises teaches the basics of the Mobile Application development with a different cross-platform mobile technologies. Every students needs to create a repository to JAMK GitLab/LabraNet with exact rules, so teacher evaluation tool can find it and evaluation can be done.
Read more information: How to work with exercises
Exercises gives 100% of the course evaluation (0-5 number). Student need to todo at least 40% of the exercises to pass the course.
| Exercises done | Number |
|---|---|
| >= 80% | 5 |
| >= 70% | 4 |
| >= 60% | 3 |
| >= 50% | 2 |
| >= 40% | 1 |
| < 40% | 0 |
Returning
Create your own timetable, when you are creating exercises and research assignment. The final returning date is when the course ends.
Evaluation
Course will be evaluated with exercises.
Participation in the course
Student need to start working within the first three weeks or student will be removed from the course participants.
eRPL Accreditation
You can apply for the accreditation of previously completed higher education studies or for the recognition of competence acquired in other ways (RPL) in Peppi.
Workload
Course will contain video lectures and exercises. There are no exact timetable to return exercises. All exercises will be evaluated when course ends or earlier if student wants credits graded.
- Lectures: 20h
- Exercises: 115h
- Total: 135h
Materials
All the course materials and exercises can be found in a below table and a left menu. Pre-recorded videos are available in here in this web page.
External material links
| Lab | Topics | Video | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
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Introduction to Mobile Application development course and mobile application development. Getting familiar with React. You should check React materials first, if you are not familiar with a React. | video | 01:55 |
| MAD001 - Course introduction. Note! Research assignment is dropped from the course this autumn. Evaluation is done only with exercises. | video | 08:25 | |
| MAD002 - Mobile Application Development introduction | video | 19:22 | |
| MAD003 - React - Materials External Link | video | 02:30 | |
| MAD004 - Exercise01: React Basics | video | 30:56 | |
| Return: | |||
| - Exercise01: React Basics code or screenshots | |||
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Get familiar with React Native application development. The main goal is to learn the basics of the Mobile Application development with React Native. | video | 03:22 |
| MAD101 - React Native - Introduction | video | 13:17 | |
| MAD102 - React Native - Building blocks | video | 14:02 | |
| MAD103 - Expo | video | 08:58 | |
| MAD104 - Expo - Snack | video | 05:05 | |
| MAD105 - Expo - Create App | video | 06:43 | |
| MAD106 - CLI - Create App | video | 10:31 | |
| MAD107 - Node Package Manager | video | 07:20 | |
| MAD108 - Exercise02: Calculator - Expo | video | 03:59 | |
| MAD109 - Exercise03: ToDo - Expo | video | 03:56 | |
| MAD110 - Exercise04: Movies | video | 09:40 | |
| MAD111 - Exercise05: Movies 2 | video | 02:31 | |
| MAD112 - Exercise06: Weather Forecast | video | 04:55 | |
| MAD113 - Exercise07: My Places | video | 02:18 | |
| MAD114 - Exercise08: Launch a Map | video | 01:02 | |
| MAD115 - Exercise09: Todo with database | video | 02:00 | |
| MAD116 - Exercise10: Native Module | video | 03:52 | |
| MAD117 - Exercise11: Building Standalone Apps | video | 02:02 | |
| Return: | |||
| - Exercise02-11: exercise repositories and screenshots | |||
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How to use web pages/applications as a mobile application. A progressive web application - PWA - is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In this lab your will create a some PWA based mobile apps. | video | 02:17 |
| MAD201 - PWA - Introduction | video | 19:38 | |
| MAD202 - Exercise12: Bitcoin | video | 06:41 | |
| MAD203 - Exercise13: Shopping List | video | 06:49 | |
| Return: | |||
| - Exercise12-13: exercise repositories and screenshots | |||
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Flutter is an open source framework by Google for building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase. In this lab you will get the basic knowledge how to create Flutter based applications. | video | 01:23 |
| MAD301 - Flutter - Introduction | video | 16:11 | |
| MAD302 - Flutter - Employees | video | 24:45 | |
| MAD303 - Flutter - Multipage | video | 08:44 | |
| MAD304 - Exercise14: Flutter 1 | - | - | |
| MAD305 - Exercise15: Flutter 2 | - | - | |
| MAD305 - Exercise16: Flutter 3 | - | - | |
| Return: | |||
| - Exercise14-16: exercise repositories and screenshots |