CS 4530 - Mobile Application Programming

An introduction to the theory and practice of application development for mobile phones and tablets, including a focus on general program organizational techniques. Topics include native language foundations, automatic UI layout techniques, custom views and controls, data persistence, data driven user interfaces, application lifecycle, application architectural models like Model-View-Adapter, internet service interaction, RESTful web services, and 2D OpenGL rendering. Students will complete several programming projects during the course to explore these topics. A final project of the student's own design will make up a large part of the class.