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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.
