A proposal of Android Programming Learning Assistant System with implementation of basic application learning

What is it about?

With rapid increase of Android devices and application systems, Android application programmers has been strongly demanded. A lot of schools are offering Android programming courses to meet this demand. However, Android programming can be different from the conventional one when implementing logic functions, because it needs interactive functions through interfaces with users, which makes the study more difficult. In this paper, we propose an Android Programming Learning Assistance System (APLAS) to assist the Java-based Android programming study and education through four stages, which involves several topics in each one. Using JUnit and Robolectric, the answers from the students are automatically marked to achieve independent learning without the presence of teachers. Since the topics for APLAS are extensive, the design and implementation for learning Basic Application are described to develop a Unit Converter application. It covers the first two topics that has different learning goals, named Basic UI and Basic Activity. To evaluate the effectiveness, we prepare Unit Converter assignment for Basic Application learning, and ask 40 students of an IT department in Indonesia to solve it. The students must solve the both topics separately and we will also evaluate them separately. The result shows that this system is useful and helpful for students to learn Android programming and shows good result in execution performance.

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