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Mobile Application Development 2025/26 fall

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Mobile Application Development 101

  • Lectures: Wednesday 12:15, Delta Center - Narva mnt 18, r-1021.
  • Practicals: Wednesday 16:15, Delta Center - Narva mnt 18, r-1021.
  • Lecturers: Thomas Hartnell, Ulrich Norbisrath, Pelle Jakovits, Amnir Hadachi
  • TAs: Olev Abel, Jerin George

Objective

This course provides students with a practical introductory overview of mobile application development, mainly on the Android platform. This involves good practices for creating a pleasant mobile user experience, architectural & software engineering aspects of developing applications, and integrating mobile applications with external data sources - sensors, APIs, etc. The course aims to provide this knowledge through various practical hands-on assignments, tasks, and projects to learn about and gain experience in working on mobile software.

Topics Covered

  • From Pockets to Platforms
  • Code That Clicks: Kotlin Foundations
  • App Structure & Layouts
  • User Interaction 101: Tap, Swipe, Navigate
  • Managing State
  • Persistence Pays: Storing App Data
  • Unleash the API: Talk to the Internet
  • Firebase Power-Up: Backend in Your Pocket
  • Design That Moves: UX & Animations
  • Test It Before You Ship It: QA Essentials
  • From Dev to Deployment: Going Live

Grading and Evaluation

100% Project-Based Exam details in Evaluation

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  • Faculty of Science and Technology
  • University of Tartu
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