Propuesta de un procedimiento para el desarrollo de aplicaciones en Android.

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to establish a procedure for the development of applications for the Android Operating S ystem. In order to achieve this purpose, sources currently related to software development in mobile devices were researched and analyzed; this theoretical framework allowed the identification of agile software development methodologies as the most relevant to address this project due to characteristics such as their versatility to change, short periods of time, small development team, continuous communication and advice from the customer itself. Scrum, eXtreming Programing (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD) and Mobile-D methodologies were selected as the main procedures applied to work on mobile application implementation and their stages were assessed according to criteria such as simplicity in applicability and process management; and effectiveness to achieve a short-term functional application with low resources. The gathered features and those that were adapted allowed the definition of the EfiSenDroid procedure, specific for the development of applications for Android, which was validated after being applied together with the “App Inventor 2 framework” as a programming tool in the implementation of the p rototype “Assistance Control” of a native application that allows to monitor the attendance list of specific groups of students as well as modify or export it as a text document making use of internal storage of the device and without the need for network connections. Finally, the analysis of the results provided a high level of satisfaction regarding the applicability of the procedure and obtaining a functional product developed in a short period of time.