Summary

This course introduces mobile application programming and system-level power management for Android OS. The students learn to develop low-power Apps on mobile platforms (in tablets, smartphones and smartwatches). Students receive a tablet and a smartwatch, and can use their smartphones if desired.

Content

Keywords

Embedded systems, IoT, mobile platforms, smartphones, smartwatches, Android, system-level design, advanced programming, App.

Learning Prerequisites

Recommended courses

- Microprogrammed Embedded Systems (EE-310).

- Lab on Digital Systems Design (EE-390(a)).

Learning Outcomes

• Analyze requirements of Apps to be designed.
• Assess / Evaluate complexity of a certain App design.
• Choose the right set of technologies to include an App design.
• Optimize o optimize an App design to improve performance and reduce power consumption.
• Implement the required services and modules to design Android Apps.
• Test the final App design.
• Discuss the possible bugs and defects found in the App.
• Select appropriately techniquest to correct those bugs.

Transversal skills

• Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
• Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
• Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
• Assess one's own level of skill acquisition, and plan their on-going learning goals.
• Evaluate one's own performance in the team, receive and respond appropriately to feedback.
• Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.
• Use both general and domain specific IT resources and tools

Teaching methods

The course will include a combination of lectures and practical exercises in the laboratory to understand the baseline technologies and design aspects required in the development of Apps in Android-based. Then, in the last part of the course, it will be developed a project on a topic defined by the students team or the teacher to evaluate the learned technologies in real-life setups.

Expected student activities

Individual exercises in Android-based platforms, interact in the course, develop a complete project in the laboratory working in a team.

Assessment methods

The evaluation will be based on a mid-term and a 2- or 3-person project done in the last part of the semester.

Resources

Bibliography

List of references provided in class, cf. on the Moodle page of the course.

Support material: lecture slides, lab handouts, code snippets, example applications, solutions to the labs will be available through the Moodle page.

Websites

• https://developer.android.com/courses/fundamentals-training/overview-v2

Moodle Link

• https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=14012