Mitja Kastrevc (2013) Geo-locating on Android Platform using Web Services. EngD thesis.
Abstract
The objective of this graduate work is to get familiar with concepts and approaches of the mobile devices applications. In the first part one can find a description of the history of mobile telephone systems and networks in Slovenia. There is a rough description of data registration on mobile platforms, geographical locating and obtaining information regarding base stations. The Eclipse tool and programming languages Java, PHP, XML and JSON are introduced - these enable application development in the Android operation system. An important connection between the server and the application is enabled via RESTful web service. In the second part of the graduate work important concepts of application part are realized. Their function is to obtain information about the base station, mobile device location, connection of the Android application to web server, and map displaying. At the end the Lokator application was created, which contains all these parts. The application displays information regarding the base station to which the mobile device is registered, and displays the location of the mobile device and the base station on the map.
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