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Identifier

000430191

Title

A mobile application aiming to provide selected content and offline experience to students

Alternative Title

Εφαρμογή για κινητές συσκευές με σκοπό την προσφορά επιλεγμένου περιεχομένου και εκτός-σύνδεσης εμπειρία χρήστη σε φοιτητές

Author

Παρασύρης, Γεώργιος Ε.

Thesis advisor

Μαρκάτος, Ευάγγελος

Reviewer

Πλεξουσάκης, Δημήτρης
Τζίτζικας, Γιάννης

Abstract

There has been a significant change on the way users access content during the past decade, where a consistent increase on mobile device usage can be observed. The mobile device market share increased from almost 1% during 2009 to 54.34% in 2019. Users nowadays have multiple channels to access information on the web since each one of them typically owns a number of devices. In the meantime, it became apparent that device and OS tailored user experience and consistency is expected. Web and app development technologies progressed during this journey ending up providing a variety of tools to developers to accommodate the increasing need for mobile-friendly apps. While mobile apps evolved, users were found to spent significantly more time using them instead of accessing content via mobile browsers. Native device features revolutionised user experience in mobile devices, resulting in richer and more personalised interaction between users and their digital content. This thesis proposes an end-to-end solution to deliver university-related content to students via a cross-platform mobile application. The solution includes a website scrapper that generates data sets and stores them in a publicly accessible folder within the Computer Science Department's ecosystem. The application's implementation includes interchangeable data providers, in order to both consume the generated data and account for future changes. The content delivered consists of areas that are likely to be accessed daily by a typical student. The work proposed in this thesis aims to create a new channel for students to access university content and provide to them a richer user experience. After reviewing the plurality of development options and presenting the ones picked, the solution architecture details are provided. A high-level description of the user experience per module follows, presenting the proposed mobile-friendly developed interfaces.

Language

English

Subject

Apache Cordova

CSS

HTML5

Javascript

React Angular

Issue date

2020-07-24

Collection

School/Department--School of Sciences and Engineering--Department of Computer Science--Post-graduate theses