The aim of this thesis is to describe design patterns and other programming best practices used in the development of Android applications. The theoretical part analyzes design patterns, Kotlin programming language, dependency injection, reactive programming and automatic testing. The practical part deals with the design and implementation of a sample Android application, which demonstrates the advantages of using design patterns and other proven programming practices described in the theoretical part.

This thesis studies the use of the functional reactive programming (FRP) framework reactive-banana in a prototype which simulates a part of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base station: the Radio Resource Control connection setup procedure. The investigated problem is to determine whether using this FRP framework leads to an implementation with suitable performance and improved maintainability compared to the current implementation. Enhancing the maintainability of the base station software enables quicker and more efficient maintenance activities, which lead to an improved customer satisfaction. Moreover, it means that less programmers need to work on maintenance, so they can work on developing new products instead. In order to compare the use of the FRP paradigm to the one currently used in the base station implementation, the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm, a second prototype using this paradigm was also implemented. Having two prototypes implementing the same designed reference model (which is a simplified version of the Radio Resource Control connection setup procedure) enables a relevant comparison of the two paradigms. The two prototypes were then compared in terms of performance and maintainability. The maintainability evaluation consisted in using both software metrics and experts’ assessment, as this has been proven to be the most efficient way to evaluate software maintainability. Four experts were asked to fill in a questionnaire after reviewing the code of the two implementations. The comparison of the two prototypes indicates that the FRP prototype is more maintainable than the OOP one, but the OOP prototype has better performances than the FRP one. Moreover, the performance of the FRP prototype during the conducted tests indicates that such an implementation of the FRP paradigm is not suitable for a real base station.

Computers have been assisting in recording, sound synthesis and other fields of music production for quite some time. The actual performance of music continues to be an area in which human players are chosen over computer performers. Musical performance is an area in which personalization is more important than consistency. Human players play with each other, reacting to phrases and ideas created by the players that they are playing with. Computer performers lack the ability to react to the changes in the performance that humans perceive naturally, giving the human players an advantage over the computer performers. This thesis creates a framework for describing unique musical performers that can play along in realtime with human players. FrTime, a reactive programming language, is used to constantly create new musical phrases. Musical phrases are constructed by unique user programmed performers and by chord changes that the framework provides. The reactive language creates multiple musical phrases for each point in time. A simple module which chooses musical phrases to be performed at the time of performance is created.

[pt] Nesse trabalho comparamos o uso da programação reativa estruturada com o uso do ReactiveX no desenvolvimento de aplicações reativas soft real time. Apresentamos implementações de aplicações em Lua que demonstram o uso desses modelos em diferentes situações, destacando as vantagens de cada um. Consideramos também o seu uso combinado em uma mesma aplicação. Além disso, implementamos um módulo que permite utilizar a programação reativa estruturada em Lua e utilizamos o módulo RxLua que implementa o modelo ReactiveX. / [en] In this work we compare the use of structured reactive programming and ReactiveX in the development of reactive soft real time applications. We present application implementations using Lua that demonstrate the use of these models in multiple situations, pointing the advantages of using each one. Another consideration is combining both models in a single application. We also developed a module that allows the use of structured reactive programming in Lua and used the RxLua module which implements the ReactiveX model.

This work deals with the design of distributed repository aimed at storing digital forensic data. The theoretical part of the thesis describes digital forensics and what is its purpose. There are also explained Big data, suitable storages, their properties, advantages and disadvantages, in this part. The main part of the thesis deals with the design and implementation of distributed storage for digital forensic data. The design is also focused in suitable indexing of stored data, and supporting new types of digital forensic data. The performance of implemented system was evaluated for chosen type of digital forensic data PCAP files.