Development of a Location-Based Approaching Notification System Using Android Platform

摘要

Mobile application uses and development is a rapidly growing sector. Nowadays mobile devicesare more powerful and portable with plenty of useful tools for assisting people handle daily life.The main objective of this paper is to develop a mobile application that solves the problemsfacing bus drivers and parents when parents do not show up, and when kids wait for a longtime. The application also produces the current drivers map to be used for bus fleetmanagement purposes. The application makes use of the location service on Android to specifythe current location of the driver, and the Google’s cloud to device messaging to pushapproaching notifications to parents. The application is developed using an ExtremeProgramming (XP) based methodology that performs the analysis, design, implementation, andtesting iteratively.