Mobile Terminals Programming Course
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MOBILE TERMINALS
Mobile terminals:
A mobile terminal, literal translation of the term
"mobile device" is a portable computer.
usable autonomously during travel.
The device is compact and lightweight to allow
a mobile use.
It is equipped with a battery and often benefits from a
Bluetooth connection or even Wi-Fi to function.
autonomously.
It typically appears as a screen having a
interface tack or a miniaturized keyboard.
It can be about tablets, smartphones,
mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs),
personal navigation assistants, etc.
Characteristics
According to their uses and their importance, we distinguish
different families of mobile terminals on which a
mobile application can run:
The PDAs:
UnPDA (Personal Digital Assistant, literally
personal digital) is a pocket computer composed
a processor, RAM, a touchscreen, and
network features in a compact box
extremely small size.
PDA image
Utility of the PDA
The PDA is a pocket computer whose use is intended
originalement dans un but d'organisaton.
A personal assistant generally provides the
following applications:
A schedule for the organization of employment
time, with visual reminder mechanisms or
auditfs.
The scheduled appointments and events in
the agenda can be contextualized, in order to
respond to both professional and
personnel, thanks to an adaptable classification
(office, private, etc.)
Task manager serving as assistant
memory for tasks to be performed.
A priority, deadlines or mechanisms
Reminders can be assigned to each task.
A contact directory (contact managers),
allowing to have at any time at hand
the contact details (phone number of
phone, postal address, address of
messaging, etc.).
A messaging software, making it possible to
consultation of his emails as well as the drafting of
new messages.
PDAs are also being used more and more.
for geolocation uses, of
mapping and road navigation when they
are coupled with a geolocation device
(GPS, Global Positioning System).
Indeed, for a low cost it is possible to have
of a very high-performance embedded GPS system
allowing road navigation using a
map indicating its position and speed continuously
and a visual representation of the road
(possibly in 3D) with on-screen instructions
and dictated by a synthetic voice.
Mobile phones:
A mobile phone, also called a portable phone, allows
to communicate by phone without being connected by cable to a central unit.
Sounds are transmitted by electromagnetic waves in
a specific network.
We can therefore communicate from any place where a relay antenna captures.
the emissions of the device used.
The different generations of mobile telephony
Image of mobile telephony
Touch tablets
A tablet will touch1electronic tablet, slate
electronics, tablet digital or everything
simplementtablete, is a personal assistant or
a super slim laptop that comes in the form of
of a touchscreen without a keyboard that offers approximately the
same functionalities as a personal computer.
It allows access to multimedia content such as
television, web browsing, consulting and
email sending, the agenda, the calendar and
the simple office.
It is possible to install additional applications
from an online application store.
In a way, the touchscreen tablet is an intermediary.
between the laptop and the smartphone.
Tactile tablets
Digital player
A digital player is a player (portable device that allows
restoring music) where the tracks are stored in the form
of computer files.
The most well-known format for storing sound is the MP3 format, this
which sometimes earns these devices the nickname 'MP3 player'.
Mobile application:
Definition
A mobile application is a type of application software.
downloadable, designed to work on a device
mobile, such as a smartphone or a tablet PC.
It aims to provide services similar to those available
on computers and are generally small units of
software offering limited functionality like a game,
a calculator or mobile web browsing
The main operating systems for mobile
A mobile operating system is a system
designed to operate on a mobile device.
Mobile operating systems (OS) can be defined
like the software allowing a smartphone or a
basic mobile phone to function.
They therefore allow users to be able to make a
phone call, browse on their phones among
all the sections, download applications or even
set up and customize their smartphones.
1. Symbian OS is an operating system for terminals
mobile
In 1996, Symbian was founded from a partnership of the company
PSION mother with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita.
It has numerous specific APIs for the
mobile voice and data communication, and uses
standard network communication protocols
IPv4/IPv6, WAP, MMS, Bluetooth, GPRS/UMTS, Java.
The position of Symbian in the market of systems
exploitation for smartphones guarantees that
Nokia, one of the largest phone companies in the
world to be its main shareholder.
iOS
iOS, formerly iPhone OS, the 'i' in iOS stands for
iPhone, with a lowercase 'i', is the mobile operating system.
developed by Apple for several of its devices.
It is derived from macOS, which it shares the foundations with.
The iOS platform is equipped with a user interface.
friendly, elegant, and intuitive: just have the iPhone, the iPad
and the iPod touch in hand to master them immediately.
Blackberry OS
BlackBerry OS is an operating system
owner of the BlackBerry mobile phone range
designed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM)
now known as Blackberry.
BlackBerry OS was originally created for the men's market.
of business.
It is equipped with various applications for business.
such as: emails, text messages
(SMS), MMS messages, BlackBerry Messenger, the
web browser, the memo, etc.
Windows Phone
Windows Phone, also known as Windows Mobile, is developed by
the firm Microsoft.
It is a proprietary, non-open-source platform created at
the origin to be a mobile version of windows with a
user interface compliant with the current version of
windows.
Windows Mobile supports many types of audio and video.
and even brings the possibility to download, to play from the
music and watching TV online.
Bada OS
Bada is the operating system for smartphones.
owner of Samsung.
Palm OS
Palm OS is the operating system developed by the company
Palm.
It is easy to use and simple to learn.
Android
Android is an operating system developed by Google
for next generation mobile phones, PDAs and
other mobile terminals (tablets).
It is based on a Linux kernel.
This platform provides a development kit.
(SDK) based on the Java language.
There are several mobile operating systems (OS) including
the most common are the following: