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QUESTION 1 : Mobile app development is the act or process by which a mobile app is developed for mobile devices, such as personal digital assistants, enterprise digital assistants or mobile phones. These applications can be pre-installed on phones during manufacturing platforms, or delivered as web applications using server-side or client-side processing (e.g., JavaScript) to provide an "application-like" experience within a Web browser. Application software developers also must consider a long array of screen sizes, hardware specifications, and configurations because of intense competition in mobile software and changes within each of the platforms. Mobile app development has been steadily growing, in revenues and jobs created.

a) DISCUSS FOUR (4) tools and technologies that can be used to develop mobile application system. (20 marks)

b) ANALYZE the memory management techniques in terms of Garbage collection, sharing, allocating and reclaiming in android application development (15 marks) [35 marks]

QUESTION 2

a) DISCUSS the usage of manifest file in android application development. (20 marks) [20 marks]

QUESTION 3

Intent Service is an extension of the Service component class that handles asynchronous requests (expressed as Intents) on demand. Clients send requests through intent calls; the service is started as needed, handles each Intent in turn using a worker thread, and stops itself when it runs out of work

a) EXAMINE the passing and retrieving data through intent service in an android application ( 20 marks) [20 marks]

QUESTION 4

a) ANALYZE three (3) challenges and current trends associated with the development of mobile applications (15 marks)

b) DISCUSS the potential security issues in mobile application development. (10 marks) [25 marks]

[Total = 100 marks]