Eureka! Institutional Repository

The latest years, the technologies of mobile devices have been evolved so rapidly that the adoption of Smartphone use has been spread widely in people's everyday life. This has made the specific area very attractive to programmers for the development of mobile software applications. The aim of this thesis was primarily the survey of the developing environments for mobile devices in Fire OS and Android operating systems (OS), in order to select the appropriate platform for the development of a relative application. In the conducted survey, the most important APIs have been studied, emphasizing the advantages and disadvantages of programming in these OSs. The results of our research indicate that Android OS has the most advantages and therefore is the chosen development environment. In the application that has implemented, cutting-edge technologies are incorporated. These technologies include cloud computing services, interconnection with location based services and maps, as well as a large number of other new features. The proposed model is based on an Android Client Application, an MS Windows Server Application which disposes the SQLite Data Base and the interconnection of them with the Google Cloud Messaging Service. The analysis of the application’s requirements as well as the design of its architecture have been carefully made, considering the typical constraints of mobile devices, such as the short battery life and the reduced bandwidth of the data network.