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COMPS413F Application Design & Development for Mobile Devices

Group Project in Android Application Development

Due Date: 14 December 2021 (Tuesday) (Week 13)

Aim
The aim of the group project is to design, develop, and evaluate an application written in Android. Each group of no
more than five students will submit an application of a particular area. The groupmates are not limited from the
same tutorial group.

Project Basics Requirements
• A complete version of your proposed application should be implemented.
• You are encouraged to implement any additional or useful feature.
• The application should satisfy the following basic technical requirements to achieve the minimal standard:
o Android API is applied
o Using GUI
 UI widgets, 2D graphics
o Splash screen
o An “About” screen callable from menu command
o Data storage
 Files, shared preferences, SQLite, …
o Multithreading
 Thread, Handler, AsyncTask, …
o Multimedia
 Sound effects, image, device vibration, …

Development
You are allowed to complete it with the help of other mobile application development frameworks. If any framework
is employed, it should be specified in the report.

Project Report
• A report of less than 1000 words addressing the design and evaluation of the application.
• In the written report, you should include:
o Application/group basic information:
 Application name
 Names and student ID of students in the team
o Summary of your application project, e.g., the problem.
o Description of major and significant feature or improvement of your application.

COMPS413F – Group Project
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Submission
• Submit your works to the OLE, which include:
o A project software containing the application and the application is runnable by running the project.
o Project report.
• Use “s*******.zip” as the filename format of your submission, where s******* is your student ID.
o Only one submission of each group is required.
• Non-submission of each submission element will be penalized at 50% (absolute marks).
• Late submission without a legitimate reason will be penalized at 20% (absolute marks) by 1 day, or get zero for
your group project.
• Submission of FYP or application from other courses will get zero mark of your group project.
• Every group should submit all the required components on 14 December 2021 (Tuesday) (Week 13).

Project demonstration
• Every group should demonstrate their mobile application project on 14 December 2021 (Tuesday) (Week 13).
• Note:
o If you have successfully applied the “Special Arrangement of Online Study (2021 Autumn) for S&T UG”),
please contact the course instructor (Kevin Tse) (kwtse@hkmu.edu.hk) for special demonstration
arrangement.

Grading Referenced Criteria
Pass Grade
• Satisfying the basics requirements.
Higher Grades
To obtain higher grades, groups may consider one or more of the following approaches:
• Appropriate use of more graphics and animations
• Appropriate use of more multimedia
• Appropriate use of more sophisticated techniques
• Innovative idea