Week 2

This week we continued to explore available technologies to be used in building server/client phone applications. I read a paper relating to design patterns in server/client architectures that can lead to increased usability from the user perspective.

We also read about security when using Tomcat. Depending on what type of information we end up storing in our application server, we may need to further research security standards and ensure that we are protecting sensitive user data. If we avoid collecting any sensitive data, there is less risk, but we still need to worry about authenticating users and managing identities.

One of my goals is to become acquainted with more Android application layout strategies, to make our application as appealing as possible.