COUN 6626 Walden University Research Methodology & Program Evaluation Paper

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

• Apply mobile application development principles and best practices in the development of a mobile application

Scenario

You have recently been hired as the newest member of the mobile  application development team for the Mobile2App Company. Every week,  your team meets to discuss the latest client projects that have been  sent in and to assign the work. There are three available projects that  both you and the rest of the team feel would be a good fit for your  expertise. This means you may select which application you would like to  work on. Your options are an inventory app, an event tracking app, and a  weight tracking app.

This application will be used to track the daily weight of the user. This application must include the following:

• A database with at least three tables: one to store the daily  weight, one to store user logins and passwords, and one to store the  goal weight. Note that goal weight will be constant but setting a  one-time weight that is stored in a database will be the simplest way  for you to accomplish this task.
• A screen for logging into the app; note that this should also be used to create a login if the user has never logged in before
• A screen, with a grid, that displays all of the daily weights and the days they were entered
• A mechanism by which the user can add a daily weight
• A mechanism by which the user can add a goal weight
• A mechanism by which the application will notify the user when they reach their goal weight

In a previous milestone, you selected an app to develop and completed  some preliminary research. Now you will build on the base you already  have and investigate how the app will need to look and function in order  to best serve its users. All of the information you analyze and the  decisions you make in this project will need to be gathered into an app  development proposal.

Directions

All three projects will use the same scenario you began work on  during your milestone. Remind yourself of the client’s needs and review  any instructor feedback you may have received from your milestone work.  By constructing your app development proposal, you will be preparing  yourself for success in both Project Two and Project Three.

For this project, you will create an App Development Proposal by demonstrating your knowledge of the following criteria.

1. Articulate the goals of the project. Describe the  application you have chosen, its major components, and what  functionality will be necessary based on the scenario.
2. Describe the users of the application and the assumptions being made regarding their needs and preferences. As you think about potential users, consider the following questions to guide your response: 
   • How many different types of users can you identify?
   • What different goals might individual users have?
   • What will users need in order to achieve their goals in this app?
3. Discuss the screens and features that will be necessary to produce a user-centered UI for the app.  Be sure to include a high-level description of every necessary screen  and feature that will be in your app. Also explain how a user might be  expected to move from one screen to another. You may choose to support  your ideas with a simple diagram or illustrations to better represent  the different components. Throughout your discussion, remember to  justify your decisions by referencing the Android Design and Quality  Guidelines, linked in the Supporting Materials section.
4. Discuss how the functional app requirements will be represented in the code and connected to the UI.  You should explain the calls that show the flow of data between code  and screens. When explaining what data calls you may need to make, you  should list the major UI components on each screen, then determine what  data each component will either display or accept as input and where the  data might come from.