CS 5520 — Mobile Application Development
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springBostonOnlinePortland, MaineSeattle, WASilicon Valley, CAVancouver, CanadaHybridOnlineTraditional
Focuses on mobile application development on a mobile phone or related platform. Discusses memory management; user interface building, including both MVC principles and specific tools; touch events; data handling, including core data, SQL, XML, and JSON; network techniques and URL loading; and, finally, specifics such as GPS and motion sensing that may be dependent on the particular mobile platform. Students are expected to work on a project that produces a professional-quality mobile application and to demonstrate the application that they have developed. The instructor chooses a modern mobile platform to be used in the course.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer B 2023 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 72% | 5.0 |
| Fall 2023 | 4 | 209 | 249 | 84% | 10.0 |
| Spring 2024 | 5 | 199 | 250 | 80% | 10.2 |
| Summer B 2024 | 1 | 22 | 36 | 61% | 14.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 7 | 330 | 403 | 82% | 10.4 |
| Spring 2025 | 5 | 122 | 216 | 56% | 18.8 |
| Fall 2025 | 4 | 159 | 228 | 70% | 17.3 |
| Spring 2026 | 2 | 90 | 135 | 67% | 22.5 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 16% · T 9% · W 4% · Th 27% · F 3%
Common patterns: async (56% of sections), R (14% of sections), MR (8% of sections), T (7% of sections), M (5% of sections), F (3% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Md Nazmus Sakib Miazi (47% of students) · reviews
- Daniel Feinberg (30% of students) · reviews
- Neda Changizi (10% of students) · reviews
- Oscar Veliz (7% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Daniel Feinberg (65% of students) · reviews
- Neda Changizi (11% of students) · reviews
- Shivakumar Mathapathi (9% of students) · reviews
- Gary Cantrell (7% of students) · reviews
Summer B
- Neda Changizi (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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