App development for mobile application,i want to write portfolio for this subject,i will send 3 weeks lecture slides ,by using these slides you need to write 5 topics

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Assignment 2 — Mobile Android application Due date: 11:50 pm AEST, Friday Week 10 ASSESSMENT

Weighting: 30%

2 Length: Less than 50 MB

Objectives This assessment item relates to the learning outcome 1, 2 and 3. More specifically, to design and implement a complex mobile application.

The objective of this assignment is for students to:

• Develop, test and maintain a mobile application using an integrated suite of mobile software development tools. More specifically Android Java development is undertaken using Android Studio.

Introduction You are assigned the task of creating a data logger to capture inventory location data in a mobile application that stores the data in a local database. The app has fields to record data for items owned by the company were the app is employed to capture time, location and condition data for items in the companies’ inventory. After the name of the staff member entering the data is given, a page (fragment) is shown to record data values for the items in the inventory. An entry consists of inventory data. When the Save Log Entry button is pressed this data is saved locally in an application SQLDatabase. When the Show Log Entries button is pressed a related page (fragment) is shown that list all the date/time, location and data entries made for that item. We will refer to our app as InventoryLogs.

More details of these pages will be given in the sections below. You should also consult the weekly lecture/tutorials on the Moodle website for help and more information on completing the assignment. The tutorials contain step-by-step procedures for working through the assignment as well as some tips and extra help and clarification of the specification. Make sure you read the lecture/tutorials on the Moodle website.

Mobile Application Home Startup Page The application start-up is unchanged from assignment 1.

Inventory Data Entry Pages The company has decided that it needs to collect the latitude and longitude of the package when the user taps on the ADD ITEM button. This means you will have to determine the location and add this to the Inventory log that is displayed when SHOW LOGS is chosen.

Show Log Entries Page This page is unchanged from assignment 1 other than showing the latitude and longitude as well as time, see figure 1.

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Fig. 1: Show log entry page (fragment).

Options Menu pages The Options Menu options is unchanged from assignment 1 except for the Send all entries option.

The Send all entries will be used for sending the inventory database to the employer and to clear the current database of any entries. If the OK button is pressed the DialogProgress class is used to send the email asynchronously in a thread and will show the progress of the action.

An email message is composed containing each inventories' log entry during the ProgressDialog event using an Intent object and the built in Mail app. The username is to be contained on the first line of the email. Each Inventory logger entry is put on its own line in the email, e.g.

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When the email is sent all the Inventory logger database entries are deleted.

To test this feature send the email to yourself. Include a copy of any such emails in the documents you submit for the assignment.

Profile page The Profile fragment is unchanged from assignment 1.

Other Features These are unchanged from assignment 1.

Required Documentation You are also to prepare a Word document. Your document should include an appropriate title page. Your document should have sections that address plan for testing the mobile application, sending your app data and the financial case and application commentary, specified below.

Plan for a Testing Strategy for your App Your document should:

• Create and review a list of mobile devices, and versions of Android targeted by the app.

• Discuss whether testing is required on actual devices and what part emulators/simulators can play in this process

• Document functional and UI testing of the app.

Sending your App data The inventory data is sent contained in an email. Discuss how you would use SMS messaging to achieve the same thing.

Give advantages/disadvantages for both approaches.

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Financial Case & Application Commentary Your document should:

• List the features you successfully implemented and those you were unable to successfully implement; you should describe the problem in a few sentences and also briefly describe anything you attempted to do to get it to work. Your approach to identifying and attempting to fix these bugs may gain you some partial credit for those features you were unable to implement.

• A description of any additional functionality you believe would be useful to add to this Website should be included. Explain what the features are and how they would help to improve the Website.

• Are there any ethical considerations in making this kind of service available?

• Discuss the economic/financial case for an extension of the proposed system that would allow you to customise the record keeping features of the app. Identify potential revenue streams and costs. How much would these costs be for your proposed user base? How would you show that you are achieving this user base? Given how long it has taken you to develop what do you estimate technical development costs to be in hours? How would you promote your app and what kind of marketing should be employed?

Submission You are required to submit your assignment electronically via the Moodle course website. The deliverable is a rar or zipped directory containing all the code and resources needed for testing. You must rar or zip together:

• Use the export option on your project to produce a zip file that can be imported back into Eclipse to re-create your project

• The Word document • Copies of emails from your app

The resulting rar or zip file should be submitted on the course website. Please note that you should use your student number as the name for your rar or zip file when uploading to Moodle.

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Assessment criteria Assignment Component Criteria Marks

App development

- TrackGPS class implemented correctly - Inventory_fragment uses TrackGPS to obtain and display the latitude

and longitude - Inventory logger data copied to email - Message sent asynchronously using thread - ProgressDialog displayed and email received

15

Testing Strategy

- Discuss the selection of mobile models and Android versions for your testing process

- Discussion of whether testing is required on actual devices and what part emulators/simulators play your testing plan

- Documentation of test plan

3

Sending App data - Discussion of using SMS messaging and advantages/disadvantages of SMS vs. eMail 1

Financial Case & Commentary

- Discussion of the economic/financial case for the proposed app

- Identification of potential costs

- Estimation of technical development costs in hours

- Discussion of how you would promote and market your app

- Discussion of ethical issues

10

General

- Feedback given as required - Use appropriate naming conventions - Adequate commenting - Correct grammar - Citation of references, copyright use

1

Penalties

Total 30

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