BTEC Assignment Brief

Pearson BTEC Level 2 First Certificate in Information and

Qualification
Creative Technology

Unit 8: Mobile Apps Development

Unit number and title

A : Understand the characteristics and uses of mobile apps

Learning aim(s) (For NQF
only)
B : Learning aim B: Design a mobile app

Assignment title Designing and Create a Mobile App

Assessor Anshi Singh

Issue date
23rd Jan 2018

Hand in deadline
2nd Mar 2018

You work for an IT company called ‘Creative App Developers’.

Reading College, a leading further education college, has

asked you to develop an interactive app their cafe ‘Recharge’

Your manager has asked you to help him:

Vocational Scenario or
Context • understand the different uses and features of mobile
apps
• produce a prototype interactive app that contains at
least list of items available at the cafe everyday with their
prices to demonstrate how the app will work.
The solution should include pre-defined (pre-existing) code,
code you have edited yourself, and assets.
 Characteristics and Uses of Mobile Apps

Your manager would like some information about the features

that could be included in a mobile app and the different
purposes a mobile app could have.

He has asked you to review two different kinds of mobile app

and to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each. You will
prepare a short report on this subject.

The two apps to be reviewed should be designed for different

purposes, for example:

• to give information (e.g. BBC, photo, video, music)

• for navigation (e.g. location identification, nearest London
Underground stations, nearest sandwich shop)
Task 1 • for entertainment (e.g. YouTube, Spotify)
• for leisure and fitness (e.g. tracking fitness, RunKeeper)
• for communication (e.g. Skype mobile, Live Messenger,
Fone Time)
• for augmented reality (e.g. Layar, Junaio).
• Any two apps chosen by you but significantly different from
each other.
Create a report using a word processor. Make sure the report
includes the following:

• a description of the features of both mobile apps and how

these features affect the intended use
• a description of the intended use or purpose of both mobile
apps
• a review of how the features of both mobile apps affect the
intended use, usability and appeal to the target audience

You should also discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both

mobile apps.

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 Designing Your Mobile App for Reading College
Using your experience from your investigation, it’s now time to
design your own mobile app.

Before you create the app, you need to produce a detailed

design of the prototype app that you are going to create for
Reading College, justifying your design discussions. You must
first describe the user requirements and intended purpose of
the app.

The design documents should include:

• a detailed proposed solution, using a range of suitable
tools such as flowcharts, control structures, pseudocode,
events, data handling, and error handling and reporting
• a description of the main program tasks (data input and
output, screen layouts and navigation)
Task 2 • descriptions of the method of solution
• a list of any pre-defined programs/code snippets
(including any functions or sub-routines)
• a fully-referenced source table, documenting the
sources appropriately
• a test plan, to test for the logic and functionality.

The design documentation should also provide:

• a brief outline of any alternative solutions for the
intended software program and why these alternative designs
were rejected
• design justification that describes how the chosen
design fulfils the purpose and user requirements and how the
app is suitable for the end users
• demonstrate the quality and thoroughness of the
design work
• a review of the design in light of any constraints, such
as variable screen sizes.

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 Checklist of evidence A final report.
required Copies of both mobile apps you have researched.

Design documentation including:

• a description of the user requirements and purpose of the
app
• a detailed proposed solution, using a range of suitable
tools
• a description of the main program tasks
• descriptions of the method of solution
• a list of any pre-defined programs/code snippets
• a source table
• a test plan and data
• the alternative solutions and why these alternative designs
were rejected
• design justification to show how the app will work and how
it will meet the intended purpose and users requirements.
Criteria covered by this task:

Unit/Criteria
To achieve the criteria, you must show that you are able to:
reference

Justify the design decisions, including:

8/2A.D2
• how they will fulfil the purpose and the user requirements
• any design constraints.

8/2A.D1 Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the apps.

Produce a detailed design for a mobile app, including:

8/2A.M2 • alternative solutions

• a detailed proposed solution using a range of design tools
• test data.

Review how the features of the apps affect the usability and intended
8/2A.M1
use by the audience.

8/2A.P1 Explain the uses and features of two different apps.

8/2A.P2 Describe the purpose and user requirements for the app.

Produce a design for a mobile app, including:

• a proposed solution
8/2A.P3
• a list of any pre-defined codes/programs
• a test plan
• a list of sources for any pre-defined code and assets.

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 Sources of information Textbooks
to support you with this
Castledine, E. et al. (2011) Build Mobile:
Assignment
Websites and Apps for Smart Devices,
Sitepoint, 978 0 98709 084 3
Kyrnin, J. (2012) Sams Teach Yourself: HTML5
Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours,
Sams Publishing, 978 0 67233 440 5
O’Rourke, J. (2012), Flash Mobile Application
Development For Dummies, John Wiley &
Sons, 978 1 11801 254 3

Websites
http://www.appinventor.mit.edu
MIT App Inventor.
http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html
A practical guide to developing apps for
Android.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
Create and share interactive stories, games,
music and art.
www.stencyl.com
Create iOS and Flash® games.

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