General description
The aim of this course is to introduce the techniques and tools that can be used to build mobile web applications. A mobile web application is different than a traditional web application in that it is designed to be browsed using mobile devices having limited capabilities, such as small
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screen and limited memory and processing power. This is why different technologies must be employed to build it. Students will understand and use the following mobile web techniques:
(1) WAP 1.0: WML, WMLScript
(2) WAP 2.0: XHTML-MP
(3) J2ME: Web-enabled mobile application
(4) HTML5
(5) ASP.NET MVC4 mobile profile
(6) Other mobile web technologies (flash lite, …)