Developing a Web Services based App for Android

Background: An investor who wishes to start branching out into delivering Mobile Applications for Media has approached you. You are encouraged to explore ideas on behalf of the investor for Online (Web) Services that their application can consume to provide a rich data based experience for their customers. They would like the mobile app idea to be centred around providing a mobile application that aids in the delivery of information in one of the various media areas they are involved in, for example (but not limited to): • the organisation of (physical) music collections (CD, Records, etc) based on online Music data services (such as Discogs, LastFM, etc) • the delivery of information about events and ‘gigs’ that may be taking place at various searchable venues (using services such as Eventful, etc) • the delivery of information about TV programming schedules, that may include some of the media activities they are involved in as a company (using services such as BBC’s web services API) • …etc The core requirement is that the app should be able to clearly demonstrate: 1. A good quality, intuitive and robust User Interface, that makes full use of the platforms Mobile UI features – e.g touch, animation, navigation, etc. 2. Access to at least one Web Service endpoint, with at least 2 web method calls within that endpoint. Ideally, a good demonstration would provide access to multiple service endpoints – to provide a ‘mashup’ type of behaviour incorporating data acquired from these multiple endpoints into one coherent application. 3. Data acquired from the Web should be persisted locally on the device. You will be introduced to several Data Persistence techniques and strategies – the best demonstration will use the most robust and flexible techniques. 4. Any additional features that are coherent with the purpose of the application – but require the use of new platform APIs As the developer of the application, you should be able to explain in detail, your design decisions, implementation detail and limitations / future possibilities of your application within a word document For this second task of the Module, you are expected to build a prototype application that demonstrates the viability of this concept on Google’s mobile Android platform. The App should be built to run on a variety of Android based mobile phone devices