Analysis and Oversight of Development of Location Dependent Applications

Jon Premik (2013) Analysis and Oversight of Development of Location Dependent Applications. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

The main goal of the thesis Analysis and Oversight of Development of Location Dependent Applications is to present as many as possible various approaches to the location services. Each described application, according to the current or selected location, reveals some information. At the beginning, there is a short presentation of the location dependent applications, a short general definition and examples, methods of acquiring or calculating the location of the user and a brief development history. The conditions and devices under which the applications were tested are also described. In the first half of the thesis, the chosen applications are presented, categorized by the class of information, which they offer or the class of the applicability. Those more general are in the category, which describes them the most. Each and every application has a description, the number of the users, the advantages and weakness and similar applications, if applicable. In the second part, the application that measures CO2 exhaustion is described. Firstly, the used technologies are presented and the reasons for their use. Following, the website of the application, mobile application and the logic behind them are described. The design and the outlook of the application is presented on various supported mobile operating systems and the application itself is divided into parts.

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