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Why Mobile App Development?

The fact that we can! Only a few years ago you had tobe in the Motorola inner circle to do it!

Mobile platform is the platform of the future

Double-digit growth in world-wide smartphone ownership3

Job market is hot Market for mobile software surges from $4.1 billion in 2009 to

$17.5 billion by 20121

2010 Dice.com survey: 72% of recruiters looking for iPhone appdevelopers, 60% for Android1

Dice.com: mobile app developers made $85,000 in 2010 andsalaries expected to rise2

Students (and faculty!) are naturally interested!

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Why Android?

A lot of students have them

2010 survey by University of CO1: 22% of collegestudents have Android phone (26% Blackberry, 40%

iPhone) Gartner survey2: Android used on 22.7% of

smartphones sold world-wide in 2010 (37.6%Symbian, 15.7% iOS)

Students already know Java and Eclipse Low learning curve

CS0 students can useApp Inventor for Android

http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/http://www.appinventor.mit.edu/

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Why Android?

Transferring app to phone is trivial

Can distribute by putting it on the web

Android Market (now Google Play) for wider

distribution Its not 1984

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Types ofAndroid Devices

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Various Android Phones

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Galaxy Note 3

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Android-Powered Microwave

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google

By Touch Revolutionat CES 2010

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Android-Powered Watch

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Android-Powered Camera

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Android-Powered TV

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Android-Powered Car Radio

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Android-Powered Washing Machine

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Android-Powered PC

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Brief History

1996

The WWW already had websites with color andimages

But, the best phones displayed a couple of linesof monochrome text!

Enter:

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)stripped downHTTP for bandwidth reduction

Wireless Markup Language (WML)stripped downHTML for content

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Many issues (WAP = Wait And Pay)

Few developers to produce content (it wasnt fun!)

Really hard to type in URLs using the smallkeyboards

Data fees frightfully expensive

No billing mechanismcontent difficult to

monetize Other platforms emerged

Palm OS, Blackberry OS, J2ME, Symbian(Nokia), BREW, OS X iPhone, Windows Mobile

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Brief History - Android

2005 Google acquires startup Android Inc. to start Android platform Work on Dalvik VM begins

2007

Open Handset Alliance announced Early look at SDK

2008 Google sponsors 1st Android Developer Challenge T-Mobile G1 announced

SDK 1.0 released Android released open source (Apache License) Android Dev Phone 1 released

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Brief History cont.

2009 SDK 1.5 (Cupcake)

New soft keyboard with autocomplete feature

SDK 1.6 (Donut) Support Wide VGA

SDK 2.0/2.0.1/2.1 (Eclair) Revamped UI, browser

2010 Nexus One released to the public SDK 2.2 (Froyo)

Flash support, tethering

SDK 2.3 (Gingerbread) UI update, system-wide copy-paste

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2011 SDK 3.x (Honeycomb)

Optimized for tablet support

SDK 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Virtual UI buttons

2012 SDK 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean)

Triple buffered graphics pipeline

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Brief History cont.

2011

SDK 3.0/3.1/3.2 (Honeycomb) for tablets only

New UI for tablets, support multi-core processors

SDK 4.0/4.0.1/4.0.2/4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

Changes to the UI, Voice input, NFC

Ice cream SandwicAndroid 4.0+

Jelly BeanAndroid 4.1.1

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Distribution of Devices

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