DPS924 Projects Winter 2015

Overview

• Learning Objectives.
  • Build a useful and interesting Android app by the end of the semester.
  • Have a sense of achievement after building an operational Android app with feedback from end users.
  • Develop your applied research skills as you need to search for additional knowledge in order to complete the project.
    • use Android packages not covered by this course
    • integrate with another API (e.g. a Web API, Twitter API, Facebook API, Flickr API,...)
  • Demonstrate your potentials, creativity, and technical skills.
  • Use GitHub to build an Android app.
  • Use agile software development approach.
    • user stories(from the perspective of end users)
    • sprints (i.e. iterations)
    • weekly standup meetings
• Be innovative.
  • market research
  • start-up companies and career opportunities
    • seven Canadian tech startups (2014) [1]
    • 1000 startups [2]
    • startup companies in Toronto [3]
  • startup career in Toronto [4]
  • entrepreneurs and start-ups (Ontario Centers of Excellence) [5]
• Team Size: 1 -2 persons.