Creating a Mobile Phone App

Lesson 8

• By the end of this lesson you will: • Continue to develop your app in line with the ‘what

makes a good app’ design principles

• Know how to make an Information Screen and create one in your app

• Continue to populate your E-Portfolio

• Extension – Swap seats with a friend and evaluate each others app. Provide feedback so they can improve their app.

Lesson 8 Objectives:

What Makes a Good Phone App?

Its easy to use

Its free

It has good graphics and

images

Its useful

Its challengin

gIts fun

The information is always up

to date

Its colourful and eye-catching

Its quick

What Makes A Good App – design principles

45 MinsActivity 1 – Making an Information

Screen

Tutorials available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’ folder on Moodle

Activity 2 – Making an Information Screen – Adding Text

Activity 3 – Making an Information Screen – Adding Images

Activity 4 – Making an Information Screen – Adding Links

Activity 5 – Populating your E-Portfolio

10 Mins

Your E-Portfolio is available from the ‘Mobile App Development ‘ page on Moodle (Year 9)

• Illustrate one piece of outstanding work during the lesson, using Net Control to broadcast a pupil’s screen.

• What this makes this so good?

Plenary – Sharing great work 5

Mins

Extension Task – Peer Assessment

• Swap seats with a friend and review their app. Provide them with feedback (verbal) to help them improve it. Tell them what is great about it too.

• By the end of this lesson you will: Continue to develop your app in line with the ‘what

makes a good app’ design principles

Know how to make an Information Screen and create one in your app

Continue to populate your E-Portfolio

Extension – Swap seats with a friend and evaluate each others app. Provide feedback so they can improve their app.

Have we met today’s objectives?

Additional/ Support Slides

• Ok, so AppShed is not responding - don’t worry! Instead develop your app using PowerPoint. Create a presentation of what your app would look like.

• Download an Image for a phone of your choice from Google Images and use that as your template.

• Your finished design will look just as good as those in AppShed if you use hyperlinks to move between your screens … and remember, be as creative as you can!

Plan B – break glass in case of emergency!

AppShed – Tutorials• Available from the ‘App Development Walkthroughs’

folder on Moodle, file path as follows:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

• App Development Walkthroughs

Recap - Creating a User Name and password• Follow the instructions on ‘Preparation sign

information’ accessible on Moodle from:

• Curriculum

• Year 9

• ICT

• Mobile App Development

MAKE A NOTE OF YOUR PASSWORD AND DON’T LOOSE IT – I cannot reset your password in AppShed

so you will loose your work!!

• Although you can use any image type you like, the best ones for use on your app will be PNG and JPEG files.

• Find an image you want to save Right click and

select ‘save image as’ Save as JPEG or PNG Image

Recap – Uploading Images