AOU, Spring 1 2016, Course M299, TMA Technology: Level 2 M299 Mobile computing Arab Open University M299 ______________________________________________________________________________ Tutor-marked Assignment _______________________________________________

AOU, Spring 1 2016, Course M299, TMA
Technology: Level 2
M299 Mobile computing
Arab Open University
M299
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Tutor-marked Assignment
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Contents Cut-off date May 09, 2016
M299, TMA Spring 2016
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Total Marks: 100
Contents
Question 1 (50 marks)……………………………………………………2
Question 2 (50 marks)……………………………………………………3
The content of this TMA has been adopted from the home works of the course CS 193A: Android App
Development
Winter 2015 at Stanford Engineering.1
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AOU, Spring 2 2016, Course M299, TMA
Questions 1 (50%)
Assignment description
The purpose of this question is to practice more advanced graphical layouts, as well as using more
widgets/views in a graphical user interface. As with question 1, we'll suggest some ideas for programs you
could write to practice layout. We will list several suggestions, but you only need to write one app to submit. If
you have a different idea for a program you want to make that will still allow you to explore layout, please feel
free to do something other than the suggestions provided.
Suggestion:
Write a basic game of tic-tac-toe, where two players take turns pressing buttons in a 3x3 grid to mark "X" or
"O" characters on them respectively. If any player can place three of their letter in a row horizontally, vertically,
or diagonally, that player wins the game.
Setting up the buttons for the game is a good opportunity to practice using GridLayout. You'll probably want to
set the buttons to have a large size so that they fill a large portion of the screen, as well as giving them a large
font to make them easier to read and click.
If you want a simpler implementation, you can write your code as though two human players were playing it on
the same screen; the first tap is an X move, the second is an O move, and so on. If you want more challenge,
you could have the computer play as the second player. A simple strategy would be to just randomly move on
any open square, but a more complex computer player would try to "block" the human player if the human has
any two-in-a-rows and is one move away from winning the game.
Suggestion : Make Up Your Own
If you don't like our suggested assignment ideas or prefer to do something unique of your own, please feel free
to do so. Whether you do our suggestions or your own, we'd prefer to see an app that the following
qualities:
•! Your app should be set up as an Android Studio project, so it can easily be opened/run/graded by others.