Abdalwhab Bakheet, Ahmed Abd Almahmoud and Wigdan Ahmed, University of Khartoum, Sudan

Location-aware and mapping applications have gone from a desirable feature to an essential part of any smart phone. Whether a user is checking into a social network, looking for a pharmacy in the middle of the night, or located in somewhere and needs help, the key is always the same: location. In this project, an Android mapping application is developed. The application is able to display the map of the whole world while online or, display a pre-downloaded map while offline, track the user’s location, display a compass to determine north, send the user’s location to others in case of emergency using SMS, receive and interpret received location from the message, display it on the map, and notify the user by the reception of the location. The application was developed using agile methodology. It, met its objectives and successfully passed 91% of the final system test, recording that some limitations were discovered, the application needs further testing and can be implemented for particular company or university using their own maps or editing the maps in OSM (open street maps).

Android, mapping application, mobile development