MDT 101 - Survey of Mobile Development Technologies

1. Explain Mobile Application Development.
   1. Define mobile application and mobile application development
   2. Identify various current mobile devices and their most common uses and capabilities.
   3. Examine emerging handheld technologies
   4. Describe the impact mobile devices have on the way we communicate, do business, and access news and entertainment
   5. Explain which capabilities can be accessed via the mobile device’s web browser
2. Investigate current mobile applications.
   1. Identify the prevalence of mobile applications
   2. Examine mobile applications available to student
   3. Utilize current mobile applications
   4. Compare the purposes of various types of mobile applications (i.e. communications, games, multimedia, productivity, travel, utilities, etc.)
   5. Consider what problem the mobile application is intended solve
3. Identify popular consumer applications.
   1. Discuss money transfer and mobile payment applications
   2. Describe location based service applications
   3. Determine the purpose of mobile search applications
   4. Utilize mobile browsing applications
   5. Understand mobile health monitoring
   6. Define near field communication services
   7. Discuss mobile instant messaging
   8. Describe mobile music applications
4. Evaluate the current job market for mobile application development.
   1. Recognize the purpose of and need for mobile application developers
   2. Investigate job opportunities for mobile application developers
   3. Outline the skills necessary to become an application developer including programming skills, business skills and marketing skills.
5. Analyze current execution environments for mobile application development.
   1. Identify processes and tools that make mobile application development possible
   2. Differentiate the primary development platforms commonly used in mobile application development
6. Summarize how mobile applications create unique advertising opportunities for businesses.
   1. Describe the benefits of using mobile advertising in marketing
   2. Explain different ways advertisements are displayed in mobile applications (i.e. banner ad, full-page ad, tagged ad, etc.)
7. Identify ingredients that impact the success of mobile applications
8. Explore Mobile Application Entrepreneurship.(Appreneur)
   1. Define the role of the entrepreneur interacting with the various app stores
   2. Discuss the critical role of marketing mobile applications
   3. Identify distribution techniques used by mobile application developers
   4. Discuss generating revenue from various business models
   5. Describe the life cycles of apps
   6. Explore scaling apps and managing users