1. Background & Rationale
In contemporary society, many people are overwhelmed by the number of tasks that need to be accomplished [1], this tasks are of different types, ranging from daily based such as meetings at work, and non-daily based buying groceries after work. To help ourselves to remember these tasks, basic practices are to take notes on the paper based day planners or post-it and to use the personal task management software on computers and/or smartphones. As smartphones are used as an alternatives to personal computers, taking notes on smartphones is getting more and more popular [1].
Similar to programs on a personal computer, applications can downloaded and installed on a smartphone. Similar to a personal computer there exists a wide selection of proprietary and open source mobile operating system platforms, out of these smartphone operating systems, the most prominent ones being Apples iOS, Googles Android, Symbian from Symbian foundation, RIM blackberry OS and Windows mobile from Microsoft [2].
This project focuses on developing a mobile application, Locale Reminder for Google’s Android operating system. Majority of smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola and HTC have adopted Android as operating system for their products. As indicated by App Brain statistics, there are more than 1.4 million applications accessible as of November 2014, of which more than 1.2 million are free and more than 0.2 million are paid. On July 24, 2013 Google declared
Android and iOS devices are the most seen on the market. Both offer different qualities and it depends on the users’ preference.
I. Introduction: What if every cell phone in the world crashed? How would society communicate? How would one know when someone’s birthday is without getting a notification for it? Some people wouldn’t even know when to get up each morning. Thirty years ago, these questions would be easily answered, but it would have taken separate resources to solve each issue. Most tasks nowadays, however, are done by using this single device. The overuse of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite
There are mobile applications for just about everything. There are “apps” for games, social networking, banking, shopping, web browsers, word processors, weather, GPS,
The modern era of technology requires every set of information at their handsets. Whether we are walking, eating or sleeping what we require is information. The brand new set of android phones, their latest and best configuration is the need of today. These android phones demand the best of all android applications.
There are numerous advancements in technology since past few years especially in Mobile technology. A great evolution has also been done in operating systems as well. Different Mobile operating systems are available in the market for smartphones which includes Android, IOS, Windows mobile, Blueberry OS, Symbian OS and many more. The most popular among all are Apple IOS but the newest and popular as well is Android. It doesnot only contains Operating system but also middle ware and key applications. It is the First Open Source Operating system. The OS of android is based on Linux Kernel and it was developed by OHA (Open Handset Alliance). An abstraction layer is provided by Linux kernel between Hardware and the rest Stack. Furthermore, Android SDK also gives the necessary APIs and tools in order to develop android applications using the java programming language. Special user interfaces of android exist like Android TV that for television channels, Android wear for wrist watches and Android Auto for cars.
Mobile operating systems are used to run applications and programs on smartphones, tablet PCs. It is also used to manage cellular and wireless network connectivity, phone access.
Mobile technology or known as handheld computers originates as a one of the trend nowadays, which people use in their daily life. Examples of mobile device are smartphones, and tablet. Mobile technology has been more widely and quickly adopted than any other innovation ever (Pope et al., 2010). As we know, in this new digital era, everyone has their own phone and they use it every day in order to communicate with others and get information. Jacobs (2009) stated that mobile access has become a universal form of communication. It means that everyone uses mobile technology everywhere and anywhere they wish. The
Therefore, same as to the tablet environment, the smartphone OS is projected to remain fragmented and consists of four dominant platforms such as Android, Microsoft, iOS and RIM. However, as per current scenario three platforms which have the strong potential might be able to significantly change in the market over the next 12-18 months for instance Samsung’s OS Bada, Microsoft’s Window’s Phone, and Blackberry.
optimizes. Many mobile operating systems can be seen in the market but two famous mobile
The rapid advances of our time can be encapsulated through smartphones, a palm-sized device that is integrated with vast amount of applications, has the remarkable potential of making its user become smarter.
There are a number of different operating systems out there, but the best of them and the ones that you should be considering when buying your new smartphone are Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, and Apple's IOS. These 3 are the heavy weight champions on the market, and no matter which one of them you choose you're ensured to have a great operating system that will make your smartphone run perfectly, not crashing whenever you enter a game or when you watch a video on the internet.
Even though mobile phones have been in operation for three decades now, a fierce competition between mobile platforms has been going on since the spread of smart phones, which started in 2010. This struggle basically divided the world into supporters of iOS and Android giants, with others going for three more giants like Blackberry OS, Windows Phone 7, and Symbian. In fact, mobile platforms deal not exceptionally with smart phones, but also operate software on other portable devices like tablets or laptops. A must-have in a fast-paced world, mobile platforms have integrated into every sphere of life. Therefore, they are an extremely relevant and important issue to study in a research paper.
Mobile applications are software products designed specifically for mobile devices, smart phones, tablet computers and other devices. Mobile applications are distributed through app stores, namely Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, BlackBerry App World, and others. Mobile applications help to solve various applications ranging from mobile mapping and receive e-mail to highly specialized functions. Mobile applications as well as its diversity are designed to make life easier for users of mobile devices.
Android, the popularly used mobile operating system has so many sophistications which displays live contents and notifications directly on the home screen mainly accomplished with widgets and applications. Android being open source allows the users to modify the codes and applications and enrich them. This makes young developers much enthusiastic and lets them contribute to this open source[5]. Moreover Android 's source code is available for free by Google under the Apache License allowing the software to be freely modified and distributed[6]. It is also found that as in 2013, Android has the largest number of