Development of a web and an android application for tracking the position of a remote mobile device

David Vidmar (2016) Development of a web and an android application for tracking the position of a remote mobile device. EngD thesis.

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Abstract

This thesis covers a description, creation and comparison of two different versions of the same application for tracing the geographic position of a remote mobile device. The first version of the application is made exclusively for mobile devices with the operating system Android; the second version is an online version, which is independent of the platform. In the first part of thesis, we mainly focus on the technology and the tools that were used to create the applications. We described the GPS system, application system Google Maps, web technologies, operating system Android, the development of applications for such systems and the development tool Android Studio. In the second part, we described the design and creation of our application for determining a geographic position of a remote mobile device. The application has the ability to broadcast the information of our current geographical position and the ability to receive the data of geographical position of some other mobile device. The application draws the received geographical position on the map. In the last part, we tested both application versions, compared them and described our observations.

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