Overview
This unit shows you how to design and implement dynamic mobile web apps that allow complex user interaction and build on knowledge of responsive web design. You will examine the viability of web apps versus native apps, with particular attention being paid to cross platform considerations using tools such as Apache Cordova, implementing web middleware using server-side tools such as Node.js and integrating these with cloud databases to store mobile data. The business drivers for mobile portals will also be discussed, as will the social impact of mobile technology. Research skills will be introduced as a means of keeping up to date with the changing mobile development landscape.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-Req: COIT20268 Responsive Web Design Anti-Req: COIT20231 Mobile Computing
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2022
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Evaluation
The unit doesn't cover platform-as-a-service cloud services such as AWS and Google Cloud.
Introduce application development and deployment on cloud platforms in this unit.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator's reflection
The assessment tasks are too complex to be manageable for students.
The assessment tasks will be revised to make them more manageable for students.
- Design, create and implement a mobile web app
- Design, create and implement a hybrid mobile app, a web service and then use these to store mobile data to a cloud database
- Analyse and evaluate design alternatives for the app
- Use an integrated development environment (IDE) build, debug and test mobile systems to develop a working app
- Assess the current and future business impact of mobile web apps
- Critically evaluate key research areas in mobile web apps.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
Systems Design (DESN),
Systems Integration (SINT),
Data Analysis (DTAN),
Database/Repository Design (DBDS),
Testing (TEST),
Release and Deployment (RELM),
Applications Support (ASUP).
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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3 - Project (applied) - 50% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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7 - Leadership | ||||||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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3 - Project (applied) - 50% |
Textbooks
Beginning Mobile Application Development in the Cloud
Edition: 1st (2012)
Authors: R. Rodger
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Indianapolis Indianapolis , IN , USA
ISBN: 978-1-118-03469-9
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
CQUniversity students have free access to the prescribed textbook via https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-mobile-application/9781118034699/
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Android Studio (latest version)
- Apache cordova from https://cordova.apache.org/
- Zoom (both microphone and webcam capability)
- Gradle
- Git CLI
- Heroku CLI
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code
- Nodepad ++
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.azad@cqu.edu.au
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Contact information for Dr Salahuddin Azad: Email: s.azad@cqu.edu.au; Office: Level 6, 120 Spencer Street, Melbourne Vic 3000; P +61 3 9616 0680 | X 50680.
If you have any queries, please email me and I will get back to you within one business day or so. For an individual discussion, please ring me during business hours (or leave a message if I am not in) and I will return your call as soon as possible.
1 Practical Assessment
This is an individual assignment. The objective of this assignment are to develop, test and maintain a mobile web application using an integrated suite of mobile software development tools. More specifically you will work on the client-side of the application using jQuery, jQuery Mobile, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
You are required to complete various tasks including:
- set up a JQueryMobile SPA ( Single Page Application) with LOCAL supporting files,
- design and integrate a “swipe” menu system,
- design and integrate an input form with validation – data stored locally,
- display the form data,
- display data from an external third-party API, and
- a student creative choice.
Further detail about the assignment will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
Week 6 Tuesday (19 Apr 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
You must submit your assignment electronically by the above due date and time.
Week 8 Tuesday (3 May 2022)
The marks and feedback will be returned 2 weeks after the submisison due date.
The marking criteria for this assignment are as follows.
Client App
jQuery Mobile SPA: 1 marks
Home Page: 2 marks
About Me Page : 1 marks
Swipe Menu: 4 marks
Input Form: 3 marks
Display Form Data: 1 mark
Display Data from External API: 3 marks.
Student Choice: 2 marks
Commentary
Instructions and Testing: 1 mark
Application Commentary: 1 mark
General
1 mark
Further detail about the marking criteria will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Use an integrated development environment (IDE) build, debug and test mobile systems to develop a working app
2 Practical Assessment
This is an individual assignment. The main outcome of this assignment is to create a Hybrid App running on a Smart Device wherein products are scanned by an employee and available for review by both the employee and his manager.
More specifically the tasks that need to be accomplished are:
- Client - Develop, test and maintain a mobile internet application using an integrated suite of mobile software development tools. More specifically on the client-side jQuery, jQuery Mobile, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Hybrid App - Deploy the client application as a Hybrid App to smart devices (i.e., Android smartphone) using the Cordova platform. Cordova provides access to native hardware, platforms, project structure and plugins allowing deployment as a Hybrid App.
- Server - Develop, test and maintain an Express Web Server and API using JavaScript and Node with various node packages. Data is stored locally on the mobile device and in the cloud (MongoDB). The API facilitates access to a MongoDB Atlas cloud service for online storage and retrieval using Node Express middleware.
Further detail about the assignment will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
Week 10 Tuesday (17 May 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
You must submit your assignment electronically by the above due date and time.
Week 12 Tuesday (31 May 2022)
The marks and feedback will be returned 2 weeks after the submisison due date.
The marking criteria for this assignment are as follows.
Client App
jQuery Mobile SPA: 2 marks
Cordova Framework: 2 marks
Home Page: 6 marks
Scan Functionality: 3 marks
Display Local Data: 2 marks
Upload to Cloud: 3 marks
Display Cloud Data: 2 marks
Server
Connects with online database: 1 mark
Useful messages in console: 1 mark
Appropriate/functioning API: 2 marks
Commentary
Instructions and Testing: 1 mark
Application Review: 1 mark
General
1 mark
Further detail about the marking criteria will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
- Knowledge
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Self-management
- Design, create and implement a mobile web app
- Design, create and implement a hybrid mobile app, a web service and then use these to store mobile data to a cloud database
- Use an integrated development environment (IDE) build, debug and test mobile systems to develop a working app
- Assess the current and future business impact of mobile web apps
3 Project (applied)
This is a group assignment. You should work in a group of three members. The overall objective of this assignment is to design, specify, implement and test a Hybrid App.
More specifically the tasks that need to be accomplished are:
- Client - Develop, test and maintain a mobile internet application using an integrated suite of mobile software development tools. More specifically on the client-side jQuery, jQuery Mobile, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS.
- Hybrid App - Deploy the client application as a Hybrid App to smart devices (i.e., Android smartphone) using the Cordova platform.
- Server - Develop, test and maintain an Express Web Server and API using JavaScript and Node with various Node packages. Data is stored locally on the mobile device and in the cloud (MongoDB). The API facilitates access to a MongoDB Atlas cloud service for online storage and retrieval using Node Express middleware.
- Server Deployment - Deploy the API server using an online service.
- Current Best Practice - Investigate in terms of the Web App business model.
- Short Essay – Research current industry trends.
You are to come up with your own (semi-original) idea for this App. Keep it simple as you have one day a week during the term to prototype and develop this idea.
Further detail about the assignment will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
Review/Exam Week Tuesday (7 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
You must submit your assignment electronically by the above due date and time.
The marks and feedback will be returned on the date of certificatation of grades.
The marking criteria for this assignment are as follows.
App Design and Specification
Proposal: 2 marks
Motivation: 1 mark
Summary of tasks: 1 mark
Data: 2 marks
User interface prototypes: 2 marks
Originality/Creativity: 2 marks
App Development
Client: 8 marks
Server: 8 marks
Cordova Framework: 4 marks
Deploy API Server: 2 marks
Results: 3 marks
Report
Full Stack Run Instructions: 1 mark
Functionality & Problem Resolution: 1 mark
App Testing: 3 marks
Business Plan: 6 marks
Research: 4 marks
Further detail about the marking criteria will be provided on the Moodle unit website and in the the assignment specification document.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Self-management
- Design, create and implement a hybrid mobile app, a web service and then use these to store mobile data to a cloud database
- Analyse and evaluate design alternatives for the app
- Assess the current and future business impact of mobile web apps
- Critically evaluate key research areas in mobile web apps.
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