Mobile App Coding (mobile phone as an IoT device)
Objective:
To learn mobile application development with Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing, using mobile phone as a single IoT device.
Description:
The school will organise a series of basic cloud-based IoT solution design and mobile application coding workshops to students. The workshops include theoretical session conducted in a classroom, including mobile App UI/UX design, cloud computing characteristics and IoT operation principles, followed by practical sessions either to prepare a cloud-based IoT service instance or to install an IoT SDK so as to program a simple IoT starter mobile App.
- Smartphone with motion, environmental and position sensors, etc. sensors such as motion detection, light;
- PC / laptop / tablet computer with Internet connection
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- Mobile App IDEs and frameworks like Xcode, Android Studio, with App simulator
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- IoT service platform and / or SDK
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- Theoretical session covering:
- Mobile App UI/UX design : including introduction of basic accessibility design concept to facilitate access by persons with disabilities (e.g. consistent and simple UI structure, sufficient colour contrast, meaningful content sequence, etc.)
- IoT basics : machine-to-machine communication via application programming interface
- Cloud computing basics : types of virtualisation, service-oriented architecture and deployment models
- Practical sessions covering:
- Mobile app coding, testing, debugging, tuning
- Cloud service provisioning through service instance creation, configuration and connection
- IoT SDK installation, connection and operation
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- Enhance students' computational thinking skills, through mobile app coding design, testing, debugging and tuning for specific IoT environment
- Appreciate the benefits of a cloud solution architecture in particular for real-time, massive data exchange and analysis requirement
- Understand basic accessibility design concept for mobile app
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- Basic session
- Theoretical session : 6 hours
- Practical sessions : 8 hours x 2
- Moderate level session : depending on the complexity
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- Basic session : S1 - S2
- Moderate level session : S3 - S4
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| About 20 students per workshop |
