Prototyp för skolapp
The consultancy firm Knowit sought a smartphone application for communication between schools and pupils. Together with the students, it was decided to create the app both for Android and for iPhone. The project would produce a prototype app with limited functionality usable as a proof-of-concept in communication with potential customers.The questions that have characterized the work are; what features would be demanded in a school app, how to program user-friendly functionality and how to use object-orientation to design such an app. A question has also mentioned the differences between development for iOS and Android. The work was done in an iterative process in which the students worked together with planning, programming and testing. In addition, a small study was made, in which pupils were asked for their desired functionality in a school app.The project has resulted in a working prototype with a few pages implemented. During the work it was established that the pages and the functionality that pupils ask for includes: schedule, exam schedule, chat and custom push notifications. Factors besides functionality that contribute to a user friendly app are transparency and smoothness. This work has also led to a suggestion of how these features can be joined in a project and a class diagram has been used to illustrate the common solution for Android and iOS. Based on the diagram it can be seen that the apps have a menu as a base for all the pages that are presented and a class is the link between the applications and the data retrieved from the database.The work also explains differences between the platforms. One difference is that iOS programmer normally only need to program for the last two iOS releases while the Android developer must adapt its product for many different screen sizes and versions of the operating system. Another difference is that it is perceived that Objective-C is a more difficult programming language to adapt to than java.