Introduction to Programming Language Design

Mobile Development

TRACEY CASSELLS


,Smartphones
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The Smartphone is one of the most active
technologies under continual development of our
modern age:
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Roughly 250 000 active patents impact smart phones, or
1/6 of patents overall (not just technology sector) –
techdirt.com
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It is a very profitable business, with smartphone and
tablet sales already overtaking PCs and Laptops

,Smartphones
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The pace of development continues to accelerate
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Flexible displays.
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Google Glass ( AR devices).
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Smaller, longer-lasting batteries.


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We'll have a separate lecture about this later.

, Smartphones
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Never before has so much functionality been made
available to developers in one device.
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Design your apps with the following in mind:
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Smartphone operating systems are increasingly becoming
embedded in everything.
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But they still have a limited memory, CPU, and storage.
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They also have a very limited power source (battery)
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Smartphones are extremely personal devices and can
contain people's whole lives, work details, security
access, personal photo's, wallets.