Course content

This course teaches the basics of cross-platform mobile applications development with a focus on the React Native framework. The goal is to help students develop best practices for creating apps for both iOS and Android using JavaScript programming language.

Keywords: JavaScript, React Native framework, development tools for building and debugging cross-platform mobile apps, UI design and implementation, handling of data and network calls, internationalisation of mobile app, use of device sensors.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

• can describe the basics of cross-platform mobile development
• know various tools and technologies used in cross-platform mobile development
• can explain mechanisms for mobile app development using cross-platform frameworks

Skills

• can set up development environment and create mobile applications with cross-platform development framework
• can use emulators to run the applications on Android or iOS or on both platforms
• can create single-page or multi-page applications with graphics, forms, data persistence, network calls (e.g. REST api calls), etc.
• can use mechanisms to create applications adapted to internationalisation i.e support for multiple languages.

General competence

• The candidate is able to acquire new knowledge in a field in cross-platform mobile development

Learning methods and activities

Online study: lectures, lessons, individual exercises and project work.

Mandatory work requirements: all exercises including project work must be approved.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

Basic programming

Object-oriented programming

Web development

Required previous knowledge

Basic JavaScript

Course materials

Lessons and learning resources are made available on the university's learning platform after the start of the course.