CPSC 372

John D. McGregorModule 3 Session 5

Assignment and References

Assignment• Address the problems found in the evaluation of your use case model.• List the quality attributes that are important to your app. List them in

priority order and justify that order.• Apply the Model/View/Controller pattern to your app:

http://mindtherobot.com/blog/675/android-architecture-message-based-mvc/

• Describe the contents of each element of the pattern in terms of the entities and actions needed for your app. Use UML class and sequence diagrams to describe the elements and their relationships. Use sequence diagrams to show example interactions among the objects in the executing system based on the class members.

• Then look at some of the very detailed Android design patterns such as: http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/index.html

• Begin a mockup of your app’s intro screen and the controls to be used. Submit a drawing created using Paint or some other drawing program. Save it in .png format.

Blogs with Android architecture examples

• http://www.therealjoshua.com/2011/11/android-architecture-part-1-intro/

• http://mindtherobot.com/blog/675/android-architecture-message-based-mvc/

• http://androidtutorialforbeginners.com/android-application-architecture/

• http://vladnevzorov.com/2011/04/18/android-application-architecture-part-i-background/