dissertation android app

Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata

Corso di laurea inLINGUE NELLA SOCIETA’ DELL’INFORMAZIONE

SHAKEHANDS: SVILUPPO DI UN’APPLICAZIONE ANDROID PERL’ APPRENDIMENTO DELLE ESPRESSIONI IDIOMATICHE

Laureanda:Alessandra Ponis

Relatore:Prof. Luigi Laura

SCENARIO

What is Android?

• Overview:• Open source operating system and software

platform for mobile devices

Free software

1) Free technologies

3) Open Source Apache License

2.0

2) Completly available

source code

The Android project

Android allows developers to contribute to the improvement of the operating system by developing new applications.

The project’s objective

Demonstrating that it’s possible to combine IT and linguistic skills, in order to work effectively for a common purpose and a mutual goal like the building of brand-new systems.

The development of a new Android App: ShakeHands

• What is ShakeHands?

A software application for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that provides users with a tool for managing and searching for idiomatic expressions and their related categories, in order to easily insert and consult them.

The elements managed by the app-DB interaction

Category 1

Idiom 1Translation 1

Idiom 2Translation 2

…

Category 2

Idiom 1Translation 1

Idiom 2Translation 2

…

Category 3

Idiom 1Translation 1

Idiom 2Translation 2

…

UI

DB idioms.sqlite

ShakeHands’ strength:its double functionality

Dictionary: Traveler’s tool:

Conclusions: perspectives anddevelopments for the future

Multilingual system handling other languages’ idiomatic expressions;

Encouraging people from all over the world to feed the system with new idioms: global project;

Enhance the localization of the UI; Handling the sociolinguistic standard and

non-standard varieties.

Thanks!alessandra.ponis@gmail.com