The students have basic programming knowledge in cross-platform development. They know the differences between current programming languages, programming environments, frameworks and libraries and are able to implement a simple mobile application.

Mobile application development 2

The course includes the following main topics:

• Server communication:
  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  • Representational State Transfer (REST)
  • JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and JSONP
  • Open Data Protocol (ODATA)
• Technologies of modern end devices - cross-device problems, requirements
• Specific aspects of used in cross-platform (mobile) application development of:
  • HTML 5
  • SinglePage applications
  • Constructors in JavaScript vs. declarative approaches in HTML
  • CCS 3 (Cascading Style Sheets): standard, new possibilities, LESS: dynamic stylesheet language
• JavaScript:
  • Closures
  • Prototypes
  • Model View ViewModel concept (MVVM)
  • Observable Objects
  • Cross-browser libraries:
  • jQuery, jQueryUI
  • Knockout
  • Bootstrap
• Project based implementation

The following basic literature will be used in the course:

• A. Eschenbach, Platform Independent Software Development for Mobile Devices: Hybrid Apps with Cross-Platform Toolkits, Av Akademikerverlag, 2016;
• F. Franke, Apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript: For iPhone, iPad and Android, 2015, Rheinwerk Computing;
• H. Fehr, Programming theyr own apps: Step by Step with LiveCode to Theyr Own App - for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android;
• J. Semler, App-Design: Alles zu Gestaltung, Usability und User Experience - Apps für iOS, Android sowie Webapps - Von der Idee zum fertigen Design, Rheinwerk Design, 2016;

Lecture, moderated exercises, group work, interactive teaching

Final grade comprised of

• Class participation (moderated exercise examples)
• Term paper
• Partial tests (continuous assessment)