Overview
- build a useful and interesting Android app
- real users/clients
- be innovative
- demonstrate your potentials, creativity, and technical skills
Project Milestones
- 1.0 [DONE]
- due: 11:59 pm, September 9 (Tuesday)
- Task: Identify 1-3 application domains or user/client groups for your project.
- Example: application domain: Guide for International Students, user group: international students at Seneca
- 1.1 Project Proposal (Draft Version)
- due: 11:59 pm, September 23 (Tuesday)
- requirements posted below
- 1.2 Project Proposal (Revised Version)
- due: 11:59 pm, September 30
- 2.0 Design and Implementation of Essential Features.
- Based on the use cases, submit a list of essential features you are going to design and implement on a weekly basis. This list will be used as a checklist when we go through SCRUM exercises. It is understood that the list of essential features may be refined and modified as we go through the iterations.
- tentative starting date: October 1
- 2.1 User Feedback & Evaluation.
- 2.2 Rework the design and implementation.
- 3.0 Design and Implementation of Additional Features.
- 3.1 User Feedback & Evaluation.
- 3.2 Rework the design and implementation.
- 4.0
- due: December 3, 2014
- Project Presentation & Evaluation
Project Proposal: Requirements
Imagine that you are submitting a proposal to a group of investors who may fund your project.
- What is the business value or possible impact of your project?
- Who are your users/clients? (You should have at least 3 users and only one of them may be your classmate.)
- What are the use cases of your Android app? (Include some diagrams if possible.) This should be the core section of your proposal. You should provide enough details for each use case.
- What is your Testing Environment?
- configuration of emulators
- Note: An emulator does not support Google Maps unless you do additional work.
- configuration of real Android devices (if available)
- Read the Dashboards to support your choice of the API level. [6]
- configuration of emulators
- What is the timeline for your project?
- What resources do you need to complete the project?
- 1 or 2 developers (names), specific Android device, other devices,...
- What is the description of your Android app?
- Read "App Developer Best Practices", especially the section on creating "a great app listing page"! [7]
- Draft a concise description of your Android app.
- Submit your project proposal (Word document) at Blackboard. Give a name to your project and it should be the name of your Word document. If you are working as a team of 2 people, one submission is sufficient. If you want to receive A or A+, your proposal must be free of spelling errors and address all the questions listed above.
Android Design Principles and Patterns
Android Best Practices
The Android Platform
- Dashboards [8]