Find Your Perfect Program:
Students Engage in Mobile App Creation
By Catherine Groux
Posted October 24, 2011 04:48 PM
Mobile applications, or apps, are becoming increasingly popular both inside and outside of academia. According to a 2010 report by Juniper Research, the number of mobile app downloads is expected to reach 25 billion by 2015. Additionally, the research group estimates that the combined revenue from pay-per-download apps, value-added services and advertising is expected to reach $32 billion in 2015.
Given the popularity of these tools, it may come as no surprise that students at colleges and universities are not only using mobile apps, but creating them as well. For example, Megan Monroe, a computer science graduate student at the University of Maryland, created a mobile drawing app called PulsART, Capital News Service reports.
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College students are not only using mobile apps, but are creating them as well. other students across the country have created various other applications. A group of college students at Stanford University created Air Guitar, a guitar simulation tool, while degree seekers at the University of Southern California launched Radio, which allows users to listen to radio stations from around the world.
While many of the student-created apps are for entertainment, others have specific purposes in society. At the University of Maryland, for example, a professor and a team of students created M-Urgency, which lets students who are in distress send audio and video to police officers and dispatchers, Capital News Service states.
