Presented By: Ayelet Birnbaum Yael Kazaz Supervisor: Viktor Kulikov 07/05/12

Motivation Ever since Smart-phones entered our lives, relying solely on computers for information has become growingly difficult When a certain service is provided via website, it becomes much more accessible and easy to use when it is offered also as an App Today, most of the students at the Technion own a Smartphone

Why UG Courses App? The course information engine at the Technion undergraduate studies website, is a very informative tool that is highly used by undergraduate students that represent more than 70% of the entire student population at the Technion In this project we will create an App for Android OS that will offer most of the services that can be found in the website today

App Features Course Search My Cart Schedule Registration Info Registration Date Course Name Course Number Semester Faculty Course Name Course Number Semester Faculty Advanced Options Presents courses in the cart Presents the time and date that the registration begins 1.Exam schedule 2.Total credits 3.Course list 1.Exam schedule 2.Total credits 3.Course list Presents the weekly schedule synchronized with Google Calendar

Creating an App on Android An Android App is written in Java Various tools are required in order for the App to work properly in terms of communication and decoding between server and Smartphone In the following section of the presentation we will introduce these tools that are needed for our project

Web Services (1) A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web In our project, Web services are needed in order to enable communication between the Smartphone on which the App is installed on and the server on which the App is developed on

Web Services (2) When a request for a certain operation on the App is received on the server (via Tomcat) then creating a web service for the operation is required Creating a web service for an operation results in the creation of a cluster of files including an XML file that holds the required information and support files that instruct how to read the XML file Other systems interact with the Web service by using SOAP messages

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services In our project, we will use the SOAP protocol in order to communicate between the server and the Smartphone SOAP relies on Extensible Markup Language (XML) for its message format In Android there is a KSOAP2 library that works with SOAP, and it can read the web services files

Tomcat Apache Tomcat is an open source web server that serves a client request and receives a response from the server (two way – requests and responses) In our project, Tomcat is used to constantly listen for requests from the App on the Smartphone, and run the operations requested on the server Tomcat enables the operation with web services and is in charge of the code translation from Java to HTML

System Layout App Tomcat PC Web Services Internet SOAP UG - FTP Web services SOAP App KSOAP2

Class Diagram

Road Map (1): What we have done so far Deciding what options will be included in the App and what options will no be left out Defining project specifications and structure Learning study material relevant to creating an Android App: – Web Services – Tomcat – SOAP Designing App implementation and building the Class Diagram Creating the Mid-Term presentation

Road Map (2): Still to Come Gaining hands-on knowledge of how to create an Android App by creating a simple App and loading it on to the Android Smartphone Writing the App itself in Java on Eclipse environment, thus implementing the Class Diagram created before Testing the implementation Writing the relevant code for the data transformation between the computer and the Smartphone and the UG server Designing the graphical interface of the App Creating the Final presentation Creating the project book Creating the project poster