Windows Phone Application Development for the Contextual Activity Sampling System
Damena, Michael (2013)
Damena, Michael
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201401291817
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201401291817
Tiivistelmä
The project was carried out to develop a Windows Phone application for CASS-Query tool. The Contextual Activity Sampling System is a research methodology for the contextual tracking of activities. The main purpose of the project was to make the query tool available on Windows platform as requested by University of Helsinki. The goal of the project was to develop the application in a way that users could smoothly interact with it giving them full functionality, making the whole query tool more reliable.
To achieve the purpose and goals, the Model View Controller software architecture was followed. A couple of iterations were carried out to settle on the UI design that it finally attained. Following specific UI design rules and software architectural methods, a Windows Phone native application was developed and made available on the Marketplace of Microsoft.
The query tool used to have a client application that was developed using J2ME and was available on limited mobile devices. Now a day, a couple of platforms have come into play and the already existing application was getting out dated. Making a Windows version of a CASS-Q client has increased the platforms in which it is available, making it more reachable by number researchers. This makes the whole query tool more powerful and out useful to many.
The result of the thesis final year was a complete Windows Phone application that could be used as the CASS-Q client application to assist research data collection.
To achieve the purpose and goals, the Model View Controller software architecture was followed. A couple of iterations were carried out to settle on the UI design that it finally attained. Following specific UI design rules and software architectural methods, a Windows Phone native application was developed and made available on the Marketplace of Microsoft.
The query tool used to have a client application that was developed using J2ME and was available on limited mobile devices. Now a day, a couple of platforms have come into play and the already existing application was getting out dated. Making a Windows version of a CASS-Q client has increased the platforms in which it is available, making it more reachable by number researchers. This makes the whole query tool more powerful and out useful to many.
The result of the thesis final year was a complete Windows Phone application that could be used as the CASS-Q client application to assist research data collection.