Mobile Application - Fast track development

Overview

Duration: 5 Days

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Focusing on the iPhone platform, the course combines practical training and technical study with creative thinking skills and concept development techniques to enable participants to kick start mobile application projects or refine and extend existing ones.

An intensive but responsive and personalised 5-day training course designed to fast-track development of the knowledge and skills needed for creating successful mobile applications.

What you will learn

Incorporating a market trends analysis of the mobile applications sector, workshop sessions exploring creative concept development and refinement, technical introductions to development software including the Apple SDK, graphic design, animation and sound for mobile applications, the course provides participants with the foundational knowledge and skills to develop commercial and not-for-profit applications for the international market.

Day 1 - Presentation, practical workshop and technical introduction.

• Introductory session: Exploring the mobile applications market and technologies (market/trends analysis, development process and paths to market, technologies and devices)
• Second session: Creative concepts development techniques workshop (lateral thinking, parallel thinking, scoping--including identification of participant projects and technical needs analysis/goal setting)
• Third session: Introduction to the Apple SDK, review of relationship with other programming languages/environments, outline introduction of SDK and lab workshop, developing a Hello World application
• Fourth session: Discussion and Q&A session including completion of a progress feedback report

Day 2 - Technical study and practical application of development software

• Introductory session: Technical presentation exploring advanced features of the Apple SDK
• Second session: Structured lab session exploring the Apple SDK advanced functionality and capability
• Third session: Structured lab session developing a basic iPhone application (continuation of Day 1 Third session)
• Fourth session: Introducing graphic design for mobile applications

Day 3 - Exploring graphic design, the user experience, 'look and feel' and user interface.

• Introductory session: Exploring advanced graphic design for mobile applications . Session includes the following: layout, navigation, composition, selecting type, use of colour.
• Second session: Structured lab session exploring techniques for graphic design. Session includes: legibility of design, style, logos, icons, symbols.
• Third session: Structured lab session exploring techniques for animation
• Fourth session: Introduction to animation and animated features for mobile applications

Day 4 - Exploring animation and sound

• Introductory session: Exploring advanced animation features for mobile applications
• Second session: Structured lab session exploring animation techniques
• Third session: Structured lab session exploring integration of animation and sound
• Fourth session: Discussion and Q&A session including completion of a progress feedback report

Day 5 - Developing concepts  technical knowledge - Focused personalised support.

• Introductory session: Creative concepts development follow-up workshop (revisit Day 1 Second session goals, parallel thinking group exercise, 6 thinking hats exercise)
• Second session: Open lab session with technical support for project development (graphic design, animation, sound design, and SDK support)
• Third session: Structured lab session by focus area (graphic design, animation, sound design, Apple SDK)
• Fourth session: Project exhibitions, presentations and awards, discussion, close

Prerequisites

The course is ideally suited to those with a good level of technical understanding in computing and preferably with some experience of software programming using languages such as C/C++, JavaScript, HTML or Flash. However, sound general technical competence should enable most to gain significantly from the course in terms of knowledge and understanding of the Apple SDK. The specialist workshop sessions are also designed to support existing mobile applications developers in refining and extending their projects.

Who should attend?

The course is designed to develop focused technical knowledge and skills for the creation of successful mobile applications. Ideally suited to individuals or organisations looking to extend their technical and creative capabilities or develop a mobile application to support their business, the course is designed to provide a fast-track introduction to key processes, techniques and technical processes.

The course is designed to support:

• Individuals or organisations interested in gaining an in depth knowledge of mobile applications and the route to market.
• Individuals or teams looking to set up their own mobile applications company
• Individuals or organisations looking to develop or extend mobile applications expertise and to create a more advanced and polished product.
• Mobile applications developers interested in extending their knowledge and understanding of the technical and creative use of graphic design, sound design and animation.
• Computer programmers and software developers interested in fast-tracking an introduction to mobile applications development for the Apple SDK

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