Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Coursera Android Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Specialization Capstone Project

In 2014 I undertook the inaugural offering of Coursera's Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Specialization.

Certficates and Course Descriptions

The course required its students to perform well in each of the three major modules, which were marked by peer review. A suitable performance entitled the student to attempt a Capstone Project, selected from one of three provided by the course creators.

My application was designed to allow doctors to monitor patients under their care, remotely.

A server application would store details of doctors, cancer patients, and the patients' medications. Patients would be reminded, via notifications, to check in via their Android devices, at doctor-specified times during the day. The patients would record whether they took their medication, their pain levels, and the pain's impact on their ability to eat. The doctor could then review their progress and if necessary alter the medications they were taking.

The course stipulated that the application should incorporate certain features, such as detecting a gesture on screen, and using graphs to present information, etc.

Obviously, an application suitable for production in the real world would require considerably more complexity to adequately manage issues such as patient confidentiality, local, state, and national legal requirements etc.

Producing this in the time allowed was quite challenging. For that reason, my app had a simple interface with little concern for aesthetics such as the use of Material Design, etc. I was asked to present the application on video, which appears below. I was awarded a mark of 100% for my application, and for each of the three preceding modules.


Capstone Project Presentation

I appreciate the quality of the video is not great. However, that was not one of the criteria on which my work was judged.


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