App Development

•Brief History - Time to download a 10 Mbytes file:10 Mbytes = 80 Mbits = 81,920 kbits. Time required = 81,920 / 247.4 ~ 331 sec ~ 5.5 minutes

•Apps Development & IDE - Console programming:write the code, compile it, run and debug it. GUI programming:also need to design the interface (i.e., screen layout of the app) with the help of an interface builder, work on code and interface alternately (similar to building web pages)

•Why Smart Phone Apps?- Comparing with reading a related page using browsers, using smart phone apps have the browsers, smart phone apps have the following advantages:More convenient, No need to type in URL especially for the first time. Better fit to the mobile phone screen, Web pages are designed to be browsed using computers in general. So the words are usuallytoo small too small to be displayed on mobile phone screens. Less data is downloaded from the server

•Sample Apps (Features) Game, Weather, Social Networking, Navigation / Map, Music, News

Graphics formats

Optimization techniques

•Basic elements for games– Aesthetics - Look sounds smells tastes and feels.Technology to support./Story– Choose mechanics for storytelling, have aesthetics for reinforce the story, and suitable technology /Mechanics - Goal for the game. proper technology to enable the goal, with proper aesthetic that emphasize clearly, and have story that make sense/Technology - Not only high tech but also any material and Not only high tech, but also any material and interaction, the enabler for aesthetics in which the storywill be told.•Introduction to Android Programming - Eclipse -> AVD -> New Android Project. AVD (perferred device, memory requirements, target platform. ) Activity -> An Android activity is focused on a single thing a user can do. Most App has multi activity. Activities start one after another.•Image View –R.drawable.? res/drawable-ldpimdpihdpi•Android Layout - Absolute Layout - absolute position. Frame Layout - Single item at a time....