The Android Application Development College Challenge

Author

Peng, Bin ; Yue, Jinming ; Tianzhou, Chen

Author_Institution

City Coll., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 June 2012

Firstpage

1677

Lastpage

1681

Abstract

Since mobile devices have become more and more powerful and distributive, mobile computing has greatly changed our daily life. As one of the most popular mobile operating systems, Android provides the tools and API for Android developer to develop Android applications. The Android application development college challenge is a influential Android developer contest for college students in China. This contest has been held for two times since 2010. It encourages college students to design and implement their applications on the Android platform. In this way, it gives the students an opportunity to show their creativity and learn about the development of Android applications. The influence of the contest is keeping increasing, and students from more universities and regions take part in the contest. In this paper we introduce the organization of such a contest.

Keywords

Linux; application program interfaces; computer science education; educational institutions; mobile computing; software engineering; API; Android application design; Android application development college challenge; Android developer contest; Chinese college students; mobile computing; mobile devices; mobile operating systems; Androids; Educational institutions; Google; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Smart phones; Software; Android; Google; college challenge;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communication & 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (HPCC-ICESS), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2164-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.2012.248

Filename

6332383