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Introduction To Mobile Solutions

Part I.

Unit:  Introduction to Mobile Solutions

Due Date:  Wed, 5/22/18

This is a 2-part IP designed to help you get started in Android Studio. Throughout the course, you will create mobile apps (using Java) that have common features, which will give you the building blocks necessary to build your own app, which you will turn in during Unit 5.

For this IP, you will create a basic “Hello World” app. Specifically, create an app using Android Studio that displays the following text on the GUI: “Welcome to CS310,” and includes an image. You may use any image appropriate to the welcome message. Build and launch the app in the Android emulator, take a screenshot of the running app, cut and paste the screenshot into a Word document.

  • Deliverable is 1 screen shot.

For the second part of this IP, you will create an app using Android Studio that calculates a tip amount based on a total bill amount and percentage input by the user. Build and launch the app in the Android emulator, take a screenshot of the running app (which should show the total bill amount, the tip percentage, the tip amount, and the total amount of the bill with the tip), cut and paste the screenshot into the same Word document you created for the first part of this IP.

  • Type your name at the top of the Word document and upload it to the portal under “Unit 1 IP.”
  • The tip calculator app needs to show that the app works and that the math is correct for at least two different bill amounts.
  • Deliverable for the tip calculator app is 2 screenshots.
  • You may use your textbook and Internet resources as a reference in fulfilling this assignment.

Part II

Deliverable Length:  Minimum 2 screenshots. See assignment for details.

For this IP, you will create a very simple drawing app using Android Studio. The purpose of this assignment is to give you more building blocks to use when programming apps. For full credit for this assignment, you should complete the following:

  1. Create a menu and display menu items on the app bar
  2. Detect when the user touches the screen and moves a finger
  3. Be able to change the color and width of a line
  4. Be able to save an image

To turn in this assignment, upload screenshots of the working app (from the emulator) as a Word document.

The screenshots need to show that the app works and that all of the parts listed work. At a minimum, students should upload 2 screenshots showing:

  • A drawing
  • Menu showing the different color choices and line widths

Part III

For this IP, you will create a game app. Choose 1 of the following games to create, using your textbook and Internet resources to help you:

  1. This is a quiz game app that will be text-based with images. The app should show the user a flag image, and the user must then choose the correct country that corresponds to the flag. The quiz should have 10 questions before showing the user the number he or she answered correctly and giving the option to play again. There should be a menu choice allowing the user to determine whether he or she wants 3, 6, or 9 tries to answer each quiz question.
  2. This is a graphic game. The user will have control of a cannon that shoots a ball at targets. The app should incorporate simple collision detection as well as sound. There should be a countdown clock on the screen to end the game. When the ball hits a target, the user should be given more time to play. When the time is up (the countdown clock reaches zero), the score should be displayed on a screen, along with an option to play the game again.

For this IP, upload a Word document containing screenshots that show the game app working in the emulator. The screenshots need to show that the app and all component parts work. As a minimum, upload the following for your chosen game app:

Quiz App

  1. Screenshot showing a flag image on the screen
  2. List of 3 choices
  3. List of 6 choices
  4. List of 9 choices
  5. Menu of choice of 3, 6, or 9
  6. Final screen showing correct/incorrect answer and giving option for playing again

OR

Cannon Ball App

  1. Start screen showing the game, cannon, ball, and timer
  2. A screenshot showing what happens when the user hits a target
  3. A screenshot showing what happens when the user misses a target
  4. A screenshot showing the countdown clock at zero, the final score, and the user having an option to play again (this could be on a fifth screen if you want)

Part VI

Students will create a weather app that processes JSON requests. This app will need to pull weather data from Web sources. Students will upload screenshots of the working app (from the emulator) in a Word Document.

For this IP, you will create a weather app that processes JSON requests. The app will need to adhere to the following:

  1. Allow the user to input a major city in the U.S.
  2. Connect to the free Web site: OpenWeatherMap.org to retrieve weather data.
  3. Create a ListView that displays 10 days of weather data for that city.

For this IP, upload a Word document containing screenshots that show the weather app working in the emulator. The screenshots need to show that the app and all component parts work. As a minimum, upload the following for your weather app:

  • Two different screenshots, each showing the results of a different city entered by the user.

Part V

  1. Identify the problem your app is designed to solve and explain how your app solves it (bullet points are fine).
  2. Describe any comparable apps currently on the market and explain how your app will be different or better.
  3. List your revised requirements (at least 10) and corresponding test case scenarios.
  4. Include your Pseudocode.
  5. Include screenshots of your working app (one slide for every app screen).
  6. Include a description of how you could incorporate either an ads bar or an in-app purchase into your app. 

Strategic Performance Measurement Systems Assignment

REQUIRED

It is often suggested that one of the most important aspects of a Strategic Performance Measurement System (SPMS), and specifically a Balanced Score Card (BSC), is its ability to “translate strategy into action” in other words Strategic Alignment. A necessary step in developing this strategic alignment is to determine cause-and-effect relationships inherent in the organisation’s activities and by extension in its various organisational sub-units (usually expressed by way of a strategy map). Having identified these cause-and-effect relationships, the BSC is used to identify and then implement a relevant and comprehensive set of leading and lagging key performance indicators (KPIs) across the financial and various non-financial perspectives. And then most importantly, these various activities and perspectives, with their relevant KPIs, are linked to the incentive system of the organization. Kaplan and Norton make the strong point that a BSC can only really impact the organizational performance if it is linked to the manager’ intrinsic and extrinsic incentives.

As part of these considerations, the goal of achieving goal congruence between managers and the organisation, and between subsidiaries and the parent company is important. As goals differ between managers and between subsidiaries, control and goal congruence can be achieved by differentiating the compensation packages to

various managers (both parent and subsidiary managers) according to their roles and contribution to the overall stratagies of the organisation and it’s subsidiaries. And to add further complication, the cultural distance beween the parent division and the subsidiaries of a multinational corporation and the location of the foreign subsidiary would also have an effect on the compensation system.

Research Activity

Undertake a search of the relevant literature to determine what are the major issues related to the implementation of Strategic Performance Measurement Systems (SPMSs), such as the Balanced Scorecard, in respect to management performance evaluation and compensation, in multi-national organisations.

Prepare a Report/Essay

Having completed your research you are then required to prepare a paper that outlines the major issues related to the implementation of Strategic Performance Measurement Systems (SPMSs) ), such as the Balanced Scorecard, in respect to management performance evaluation and compensation, in multi-national organisations.

Your paper should include a brief discussion on the nature of SPMSs, such as the Balanced Scorecard, and a detailed discussion on the implications related to strategic alignment, management performance evaluation and compensation, in multi-national organisations.

The paper should be written in fluent grammatical English. It should include a bibliography of referenced sources. Internet resources used should be acknowledged and fully referenced.3 Full copies of internet materials used should be submitted separately as electronic files (eg PDF) in a separate document(s) accompanying the assignment4,

3 Your assignment will then be automatically compared to work of your classmates, previous students from CDU and other universities, with material available on the Internet, both freely available and subscription-based electronic journals as well as texts and other sources. Plagiarism will be penalised.

4 Instructions for creating PDF documents and/or combining documents of different formats are provided on the Learnline site.

5 The length of assignment is an indication of the depth of analysis that is required. It does not include appendices, tables, illustrations or calculations. The length of the assignment is provided only a guide and need not be adhered to exactly. The intention is that students demonstrate that sufficient analysis is undertaken, without excessive workload.

All references and sources must be properly acknowledged. A copy of the final paper should be retained by the author.

The paper should be between 1,500 to 3,000 words

5. The paper may take the form of a report, or an essay. However, the form is irrelevant provided that the information required is provided within the limits given.

Personal SWOT Assignment

1) PERSONALSWOT MATRIX/QUADRANT

  • Helpful Link: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05_1.htm)
  • You will need to include THREE (3) Main Examples, THREE (3) Descriptors and THREE (3) Sub-Points FOR EACH STRENGTH, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITY, THREAT (See below and attached worksheet/template).
  • Bullet Points are sufficient.

2) PERSONAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (at least two)

3) CORE COMPETENCIES ( at least two)

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MAIN EXAMPLE #1

     – DESCRIPTOR #1

          – SUB #1

          – SUB #2

     – DESCRIPTOR #2

          – SUB #1

          – SUB #2

     – DESCRIPTOR #3

          – SUB #1

          – SUB #2

Example:

  • STRENGTH
    • People-Person
      • I seek out others’ interests
      • Ask questions about what they are into
      • Explain what I am into and compare positively
      • Engage in conversation

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Remember names of people that I meet

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We will review the elements of this analysis over the coming weeks and I will review your submission to see how you have changed your evaluation of yourself over time given what you have learned.  

I would also like to see your creativity in how you present yourself.  

You will find the effort you put forward here facilitates other assignments due in this cours