Download or read book Android Best Practices written by Godfrey Nolan and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Android Best Practices by Godfrey Nolan shows you how to make your Android apps stand out from the crowd with great reviews. Why settle for just making any Android app? Build a brilliant Android app instead that lets your users praise it for ease of use, better performance, and more. Using a series of example apps which gradually evolve throughout this book, Android Best Practices brings together current Android best practices from user interface (UI)/user experience (UX) design, test-driven development (TDD), and design patterns (e.g., MVC) to help you take your app to the next level. In this book you’ll learn how to: • Use Android design patterns for consistent UI experience on many devices • Use agile techniques such as test-driven development, behavior-driven development, and continuous integration • Improve the speed and overall performance of your app • Organize an Android app using design patterns such as MVC/MVP • Create and consume REST and SOAP web services Designing and developing an app that runs well on many if not all the leading Android smartphones and tablets today can be one of the most daunting challenges for Android developers. Well, this book takes much of the mystery out of that for you. After reading and using Android Best Practices, you'll become a much better Android app designer and developer, which in turn can make your apps better placed and more successful in the market place.

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming written by Giovanni Cantone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in May 2014. Because of the wide application of agile approaches in industry, the need for collaboration between academics and practitioners has increased in order to develop the body of knowledge available to support managers, system engineers, and software engineers in their managerial/economic and architectural/project/technical decisions. Year after year, the XP conference has facilitated such improvements and provided evidence on the advantages of agile methodologies by examining the latest theories, practical applications, and implications of agile and lean methods. The 15 full papers, seven short papers, and four experience reports accepted for XP 2014 were selected from 59 submissions and are organized in sections on: agile development, agile challenges and contracting, lessons learned and agile maturity, how to evolve software engineering teaching, methods and metrics, and lean development.

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming written by Hubert Baumeister and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY license. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2017. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: improving agile processes; agile in organization; and safety critical software. In addition, the volume contains 3 doctoral symposium papers (from 4 papers submitted).

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming written by Claes Wohlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2012, held in Malmö, Sweden, in May 2012. In the last decade, we have seen agile and lean software development strongly influence the way software is developed. Agile and lean software development has moved from being a way of working for a number of pioneers to becoming, more or less, the expected way of developing software in industry. The topics covered by the selected full papers include general aspects of agility, agile teams, studies related to the release and maintenance of software, and research on specific practices in agile and lean software development. They are complemented by four short papers capturing additional aspects of agile and lean projects.

Download or read book Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming Workshops written by Maria Paasivaara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book constitutes the 6 research workshops, the Agile Education and Training Track, the Doctoral Symposium, as well as a panel presented at XP 2020, the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was held during June 8-12, 2020. The conference was planned to take place at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the conference was held online. In 2020, the following six workshops took place: Third International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business Eighth International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development Second European Symposium on Serverless Computing and Applications Second International Workshop on Agile Transformation First International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming Third International Workshop on Autonomous Agile Teams XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from overall 79 submissions. In addition to the 26 workshop papers, this volume also includes 2 papers from the Agile Education and Training Track and 3 papers from the Doctoral Symposium. Furthermore, the book contains a summary of a panel discussion with the topic “Covid-19’s Influence on the Future of Agile”.

Download or read book Agile Estimation Techniques and Innovative Approaches to Software Process Improvement written by Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying methodologies of Software Process Improvement (SPI) is an effective way for businesses to remain competitive in the software industry. However, many organizations find implementing software process initiatives challenging. Agile Estimation Techniques and Innovative Approaches to Software Process Improvement reviews current SPI techniques and applications through discussions on current and future trends as well as the presentation of case studies on SPI implementation. Ideal for use by academics, students, and policy-makers, as well as industry professionals and managers, this publication provides a complete overview of current tools and methodologies regarding Software Process Improvement.

Download or read book Agile Methods written by Tiago Silva da Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th Brazilian Workshop on Agil Methods, WBMA 2016, held in Curitiba, Brazil, in November 2016. The 10 full and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers present empirical results and literature reviews on agile implementation in government and distributed environments, design thinking and projects inception, testing and technical debt, motivation and gamification, training, modeling and project management, maturity models and quality assurance.

Download or read book Research Anthology on Agile Software Software Development and Testing written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 2164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software development continues to be an ever-evolving field as organizations require new and innovative programs that can be implemented to make processes more efficient, productive, and cost-effective. Agile practices particularly have shown great benefits for improving the effectiveness of software development and its maintenance due to their ability to adapt to change. It is integral to remain up to date with the most emerging tactics and techniques involved in the development of new and innovative software. The Research Anthology on Agile Software, Software Development, and Testing is a comprehensive resource on the emerging trends of software development and testing. This text discusses the newest developments in agile software and its usage spanning multiple industries. Featuring a collection of insights from diverse authors, this research anthology offers international perspectives on agile software. Covering topics such as global software engineering, knowledge management, and product development, this comprehensive resource is valuable to software developers, software engineers, computer engineers, IT directors, students, managers, faculty, researchers, and academicians.

Download or read book The Business of Android Apps Development written by Mark Rollins and published by Apress. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing but still evolving success of the Android platform has ushered in a second mobile technology “gold rush” for app developers. Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android apps has become the second go-to apps eco for today's app developers. While not yet as large in terms of number of apps as iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Appstore have so many apps that it has become increasingly difficult for new apps to stand out in the crowd. Achieving consumer awareness and sales longevity for your Android app requires a lot of organization and some strategic planning. Written for today's Android apps developer or apps development shop, this new and improved book from Apress, The Business of Android Apps Development, Second Edition, tells you today's story on how to make money on Android apps. This book shows you how to take your app from idea to design to development to distribution and marketing your app on Google Play or Amazon Appstore. This book takes you step-by-step through cost-effective marketing, public relations and sales techniques that have proven successful for professional Android app creators and indie shops—perfect for independent developers on shoestring budgets. It even shows you how to get interest from venture capitalists and how they view a successful app vs. the majority of so-so to unsuccessful apps in Android. No prior business knowledge is required. This is the book you wish you had read before you launched your first app! What you’ll learn How to take your app from idea to design to development to distributing and marketing your app on Google Play or Amazon Appstore How do Venture Capitalists validate new App Ideas, and use their techniques. How to monetize your app: Freemium, ads, in-app purchasing and more What are the programming tips and tricks that help you sell your app How to optimize your app for the marketplace How to marketing your app How to listen to your customer base, and grow your way to greater revenue Who this book is for This book is for those who have an idea for an app, but otherwise may know relatively little about entrepreneurship, app development, or even business in general. You should be able to pick up this book and feel like someone is holding your hand as they go through the process of evaluating your idea, learning to code, placing your app in the marketplace, marketing your app, and finally, improving your app to meet the needs of your customer base. Table of Contents1. The Android Market: A Background 2. Making Sure Your App Will Succeed 3. Legal Issues: Better Safe Than Sorry 4. A Brief Introduction to Android Development 5. Develop Apps Like a Pro 6. Making Money with Ads on Your Application 7. In-App Billing: Putting A Store in Your Application 8. Making App Marketplaces Work for You 9. Getting The Word Out 10. After You Have A User Base

Download or read book Mobile App Development IOS Android Course written by Brian Smith and published by THE PUBLISHER. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive Mobile App Development course covers the fundamentals of iOS and Android app development, providing a detailed exploration of both platforms. The course begins with an introduction to the basics of mobile app development and then moves on to setting up the development environment using Xcode for iOS and Android Studio for Android. The course covers crucial topics such as mobile app design, utilizing UI/UX principles for both iOS and Android platforms, and implementing responsive design. Furthermore, students will learn Swift programming for iOS and Java and Kotlin for Android app development. The course dives into project planning and management, user authentication and security, working with APIs and web services, database management, testing and debugging mobile apps, publishing and monetizing apps, and analyzing user feedback. Additionally, it explores cross-platform development using React Native and discusses future trends in mobile app development such as AI, IoT integration, and AR/VR development. The course concludes by suggesting next steps for refining app development skills and exploring advanced topics, while also highlighting potential career opportunities in mobile app development.

Download or read book Mobile App Development From Concept to Launch written by Michael Roberts and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the dynamic world of mobile app development with Mobile App Development: From Concept to Launch. This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step journey through the entire app development lifecycle, from ideation and design to coding, testing, and deployment. Each chapter is packed with detailed insights, practical advice, and real-world case studies to help you understand the process and bring your app ideas to life. Whether you're a budding developer, an entrepreneur, or a seasoned professional looking to expand your knowledge, this book equips you with the essential tools and techniques to succeed in the competitive world of mobile apps. Embark on your app development adventure and turn your vision into a reality.

Download or read book Systems Software and Services Process Improvement written by Fergal McCaffery and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th EuroSPI conference, held in Dundalk, Ireland, in June 2013. The 31 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected. They are organized in topical sections on SPI Safety and Regulation Issues; SPI Lifecycle and Models; SPI Quality and Testing Issues; SPI Networks and Teams; SPI and Reference Models; SPI Implementation; Agile organisations and an agile management process group; Managing Diversity and Innovation; SPI and Measurement; Risk Management and Functional Safety Standards.

Download or read book Software Applications Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Tiako, Pierre F. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 3994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles in topic areas such as autonomic computing, operating system architectures, and open source software technologies and applications.

Download or read book Learning Technology for Education Challenges written by Lorna Uden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education Challenges, LTEC 2019, held in Zamora, Spain, in July 2019. The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: learning technolgies; learning tools and environment; e-learning and MOOCs; learning practices; social media learning tools; machine learning and evaluation support programs. LTEC 2019 examines how these technologies and pedagogical advances can be used to change the way teachers teach and students learn, while giving special emphasis to the pedagogically effective ways we can harness these new technologies in education.

Download or read book How to Build a Billion Dollar App written by George Berkowski and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS 'A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business' Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO King Digital (maker of Candy Crush Saga) 'A fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar apps. Essential reading for anyone trying to build the next must-have app' Michael Acton Smith, Founder and CEO, Mind Candy Apps have changed the way we communicate, shop, play, interact and travel and their phenomenal popularity has presented possibly the biggest business opportunity in history. In How to Build a Billion Dollar App, serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success. Berkowski draws exclusively on the inside stories of the billion-dollar app club members, including Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Candy Crush and Uber to provide all the information you need to create your own spectacularly successful mobile business. He guides you through each step, from an idea scribbled on the back of an envelope, through to finding a cofounder, building a team, attracting (and keeping) millions of users, all the way through to juggling the pressures of being CEO of a billion-dollar company (and still staying ahead of the competition). If you've ever dreamed of quitting your nine to five job to launch your own company, you're a gifted developer, seasoned entrepreneur or just intrigued by mobile technology, How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what it really takes to create your own billion-dollar, mobile business.

Download or read book Scrum Your Jira written by Clemens Lode and published by Clemens Lode Verlag e.K.. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges two illusions that can get in the way of your company’s road to being genuinely Agile: first, that your Scrum is “special,” and second, that you can hide behind project management software. JIRA is powerful—and this book will show you how to use it more effectively—but it makes it easy to forget that the first idea of Agile is: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This book begins with the origin of Scrum: rugby. Unlike in football or soccer, in rugby, there is a strong team emphasis and few to no roles. This is what makes Scrum different from Waterfall, which is focused on hiring only specialists and then shifting work from one department to the next—a tiresome approach, especially in today’s knowledge-focused industries. Building multidisciplinary teams is a crucial element to achieving an Agile company. Sharing knowledge by working together as a team, removing production phases, and focusing on quick delivery can be achieved. The key is to transform your departments into individual teams that can do everything related to their part of a feature or product. This leads us to the tools. People tend to forget what Scrum is really about. Purposefully not using certain JIRA features to create new stories will help to remedy that situation. There is a great deal that JIRA does (and does not do), compared to the pen-and-paper approach. Two examples are the acceptance criteria and the definition of done. Here, there is often no clear decision made about how to integrate them into JIRA. They exist somewhere in the documentation, or implicitly in people’s heads. But with a plug-in and some workflow programming, we can automate the definition of done elegantly. All the information needed to complete a story in one place: great! With the tools and numbers in order, the focus moves to the team. Often, it is the last (or middle) chain of production. The team is not trusted to deliver the full product. Instead, management makes essential decisions because the best people were moved out of the team into management roles. With Scrum, it is vital to have the team own the product. If this is not done, you will face several tricky issues. One particular topic related to ownership is the sprint (its estimation, and the commitment to it). Not without reason, Scrum was changed a few years ago to replace “commitment” with “forecast.” Striking the right balance between the product owner and the team is crucial. If the team does not own the sprint in its totality, including deciding on its own how to complete it, the team will, consciously or unconsciously, blame the people who meddled with it. Leading the team to make smarter estimations is an excellent way to win over both sides and increase productivity. All that said, and the work done, it is time for delivery, right? Too often, I see that people confuse Scrum sprints with development sprints. Scrum is the business side, to check on you, to communicate with the client, to plan in chunks, etc. But delivery? That can be done at any time. If you ever encounter a team that delivers at the end of the sprint, you will see many Waterfall elements in play. As your projects grow, you will need to add more people and teams. Organizing them in JIRA can be tricky, but there are ways the software can help you to accomplish the task. Finally, there are several ideas relating to your daily Scrum Master routine to help you to do your work better. From psychology to small productivity tips, big things are achieved in small steps. Where does your team stand in terms of Agile? Are you making the most of Scrum? This book was written with an experienced Scrum Masters in mind. It trusts that you already know the basics, so the chapters will jump right into the day-to-day challenges, as well as the global idea of Agile organizations.

Download or read book Agile and Lean Concepts for Teaching and Learning written by David Parsons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the application of agile and lean techniques, originally from the field of software development and manufacturing, to various aspects of education. It covers a broad range of topics, including applying agile teaching and learning techniques in the classroom, incorporating lean thinking in educational workflows, and using team-based approaches to student-centred activities based on agile principles and processes. Demonstrating how agile and lean ideas can concretely be applied to education, the book offers practical guidance on how to apply these ideas in the classroom or lecture hall, as well as new concepts that could spark further research and development.