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Mobile Platform Development: Week 2 - Graphical User Interfaces
No full textAs discussed on week 1 presentation part 2, the Android platform has been designed to run on a different types of device, screen sizes, and screen resolutions. This impose lots of challenges to android developers in terms of providing rich components of user interfaces (UI) in response to the need of the specific applications. To overcome this, Android provides a user interfaces(UI) toolkit that can be used by developers to customise UI components of an applications. Android developers relies heavily on using XML framework to create liquid layout that can adapt to these environmental changes.
In this week, we are going to use practical ways to shape this framework to fit your specific development needs. There are two important classes in the construction of graphical user interfaces, these are:
Views
ViewGroup
Mobile Platform Development: Week 3 - Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
No full textAs discussed on week 2 presentation, the graphical user interfaces should have user interface (UI) components created specifically for users in order to allow them interact with the apps. Android studio has a range of built in UI modules such as menus, dialogs and UI components such as layout objects and UI controls. The aim of these built in UI features is to enable developers to easily create the state of the art graphical user interface (GUI).
Additionally, a range of standard platform resources can be used for designing and programming user interfaces. For instance, classes in the Java language can be used in android applications to shape apps behaviour by implementing various functionality of graphical components. Other than Java class files, XML data can also be used to declare screen layouts
GCU Inaugural Professorial Lecture: The Artificial Intelligence Revolution and Why?
No full textHadi Larijani, Professor of Computer Networks and Intelligent Systems in Glasgow Caledonian University’s Department of Computing, delivered his inaugural Professorial Lecture on March 26.
In his lecture, Professor Larijani helped the audience make sense of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by explaining how we use it in everyday life and what the future looks like.
He also revealed how his AI research at GCU is helping to change people’s lives for the better – not just here in Scotland – but in developing countries like Rwanda, as part of the University’s Common Good goals.
Professor Larijani said: “In my lecture I want to demystify Artificial Intelligence (AI) because a lot of people don’t know what it is and might be anxious or worried about it.
“I will look at the positive side of it and how it’s impacting our lives. I think the future is bright as long as we are able to have safety incorporated in how we use AI.
“AI has been around for years, it’s nothing new, but the difference is that in the last 10 years we’ve had a very good speed increase in central processing units (CPUs) and specifically graphical processing units (GPU) – the brains of the computers - and computers and the costs have reduced considerably. The second main development is availability of vast amounts of data.
“One of the most important areas in AI is artificial neural network (ANN), an interconnected group of nodes, similar to the vast network of neurons in a brain.
“Most people use AI but don’t even know it. It has been used very successfully in the last couple of years for example in voice recognition, Google maps, Siri and Google Assistant.
“Most people are not aware of the huge benefits to AI such as in internet fraud detection. If your bank sees that out of the blue you’ve spent £1,000 on something you would never usually do, AIs will flag that up and then your bank can try to stop the transaction.
“AIs can improve your quality of life and your health. Just one example is that AIs can help the speedy recognition of cancerous cells in your brain. The AI will flag it up quicker with the less probability of error.
GCPH Seminar Series 15, Lecture 5, May 2019: What do we need to do Differently to Tackle Obesity Equitably? - New Thinking for Next Steps.
No full textMuch progress has been made locally, nationally and globally in developing and delivering policies and interventions to prevent obesity. Yet the effectiveness of existing actions remains modest. Importantly, the latest data from Scotland and elsewhere indicates that inequality is rising, with the proportion of children at risk of being affected by overweight or obesity increasing in the most deprived areas while it declines in the least deprived places. This
indicates new thinking is needed to tackle the challenge. But how does the thinking - and the doing - really need to change to tackle the problem? Based on 20 years of working in the field, Corinna will outline her thinking on what needs to be done differently to tackle obesity, equitably. She will explore the fundamentals of what this means for acting differently, through engaging with people affected by the problem, taking a more systems-based approach and aligning with economic goals. She will highlight not just what needs to be done, but how it needs to be done differently. Corinna will draw on both her research and practice and provide, as an example of the new thinking, the work of the London Child Obesity Taskforce.
Corinna Hawkes is Professor of Food Policy and Director, Centre for Food Policy at City University of London. She is Vice Chair of the London Child Obesity Taskforce and a Distinguished Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She is Co-Investigator of the NIHR-funded Obesity Policy Research Unit and was a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Obesity. Between 2015-18 she was Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report. Her expertise lies in the development and design of public policies and actions throughout the food system to improve diets around the world
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