Introduction to Mobile Applications

Wireless Applications Personal Time and KnowledgeManagemnt Personal Health & Security PersonalNavigation Remote Monitoring & Control CitizenServices EntertainmentEdutainmentLearning E-commerce SocialNetworks Work

Thin-client vs. smart-client sms, mms html J2ME, C++ C#, Objective-C, flashlite, applications

Messaging and Browsing Short Messaging Multimedia Messaging HTML, CSS, javascripting

Evolution of Messaging

Browsing Internet Web Browser Web Server User requests Document Web server returns document data to web browser Database Servers web server looks for document web server retrieves document micro Browser

Mobile Browsers

Mobile Web Access

Mobile markets and development environments

How many of us own… a car 800M Fixed Telephone 1.3B TV 1.5B Credit card 1.3B Mobile phone? PC ?

How many of us own… a car 800M Fixed Telephone 1.3B TV 1.5B Credit card 1.3B Mobile phone4.6B PC 1.1B

Replacement cycle PC: 3 years+ Mobile phone 18 months (Japan, Korea 6 months)

Where are the successful mobile applications? Voice call Short message Ringing tone down load Some isolated vertical applications

Mobile applications are still very young Sms 1995 Sms value added services 1997 Ringing tone down load 2000 First Symbian phone 2001 First browser phone 2002 First java ME phone 2003 Multimedia Message Service 2006 Mobile TV 2007 Near Field Communication

Overall User Experience Makes the Difference Genuine Need Limited device capabilities are acceptable Penetration Pricing = cost vs. benefit (for all parties involved) Awareness Distribution

Characteristics of Mobile Devices Limited Display Keyboard Power supply QoS (off-line capability) Location awareness Access to data (address books etc) and phones capabilities (camera, communication etc.)

Mobile Application Development Mobile Applications –Classifying mobile applications –Successful mobile application? –Mobile device characteristics Application development environments

Development Environments Native like Symbian/S60 Platform independent like Java ME

Thin-client vs. smart-client sms, mms html J2ME, C++ C#, objective-C, flashlite applications

Smartphones ”Open” OS vs. Proprietary OS –Phone manufacturer own OS –Symbian –Windows Mobile –Linux Development Environment –Java –.NET –C++ –Objective-C, Cocoa Touch

Today – a wide range of phones

Development Tools VB / C# (.NET) –Windows Mobile C++ –Symbian Java –Symbian –Linux Objective-C –iOS

Java 2 Family

J2ME develop java applications for MIDP devices Web/App Server Transfer using cable or wireless connections Download from the server

Mobile developer’s nightmare DistributionReachDevice Penetration Ease Of Dev Touch UI Access to device capabilities S60/C++ Not in US Iphone/ObjC Windows Android Java ME fragmented ? Browser Widgets Flash lite

How to Choose the environment ? Geographical reach required? Multidevice support? Thick client needed? Which phone capabilities will be used? What environments is the project team familiar with ? Type of UI? Pen/no pen, Graphics intensitivity?

Smart Phone Market Shares %

Windows Phone vendors Samsung HTC Ericsson Motorola Palm I mate HP Dell Toshiba … 62 Windows mobile devices on the UK market (3/2009)

Three Ways for Mobile Windows Native code (C++,.DLL) –for high performance –direct hardware access –the smallest footprint. Managed code (C#, VB) –user interface-centric applications –fast time-to-market –rapid application development –easy access to Web services Server-side code –For wide range of devices