Eureka! Institutional Repository

Smart devices and especially smartphones, are an integral part of our everyday lives. They offer a huge amount of applications, that could help us in almost every aspect of our lives. The inspiration for this application was the students of the Department of Informatics using a Facebook group to discuss about the courses, exchange notes and held each other. AskIT application could be used for the same cause offering an intergraded, specialized and exclusive solution to the department that will serve the aforementioned causes. The application was developed on an Apple computer, a Macbook Pro and tested with an iOS device, iPhone 5, which runs on the tenth version of this software, iOS 10. The following chapters start with a description on “smart” devises as well as their evolution up until this day continued by a brief reference on the versions of iOS, the software that runs on iPhones which comprise a big portion of today’s smart phone market. The features that make an application successful. After that one can find a report of the technologies, programming languages and tools that were used for this application to be developed. Lastly, there is an extensive description of the application’s features with use cases and examples.