An Android Application Studhelper for Engineering Students

An Android Application Studhelper for Engineering
Students
Ishani Mukherjee1, Aman Bansal2, Mokshada Patra3, Rahul Pal4, Md.Khaja Mohiddin5
UG Scholars1,2,3,4
, Senior Assistant Professor 5
Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
ishani.mukherjee21@gmail.com, mnbansal69@gmail.com, mpatra126@gmail.com, rprahulpal31@gmail.com
khwaja7388@gmail.com
Abstract—The paper has been presented with a system that is
created on the android platform targeting the students studying in
an engineering institute. The application is created for effortless
day to day official work in an institute. Students will be served
with the benefits like compilation of branch wise question papers,
general aptitude questions, video lectures, newspapers, with
some interesting features like parent-teacher portal, feedback
system and ask your queries block. The application is designed
using core java coding, layout is fabricated with xml extension,
complete creation is done on android studio. Login authentication
is developed via Firebase Auth, newspapers have been linked
through their URL, video lectures are engrossed with API and
a separate website is created for parent-teacher interaction.
Based on the above mentioned ideology, We are fabricating an
application using android design studio kit which is majorly
concerned for the effortless access of all the essentials required
in an institute.
Index Terms—Firebase Auth, xml, URL, API
I. INTRODUCTION
World is changing its pace at regular front, so as the
technologies. Everyday, we are intoduced with some or the
other fresh development in the field of science and technology.
Keeping a constant look over this changing world is a task
in itself, but the services it bring us worth just like Mobile
phones. Mobile phones have been evolved with stupendous
operating systems throughout. One of the amazing operating
system is Android. Android has been a fast developing oper-
ating system which has over taken other operating systems.
The catchy feature of android is its versatility of several
creations. It allows to develop simplest form of the application.
The proposed application is one of the easiest approached
system which is emphasised on the trouble-free piece of work
engaged at institute on daily basis. Perfect use of digitalization
trend can be witnessed through this application. Comfort has
been the major concern while creation of this application.
Accessing important documents, papers, video lectures and
ofcourse newspapers just through a click is really very less
tiring. Further sections will be focussed on the methodology
and description of the technologies used while making this
application.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
In this [1] paper,class and staff Locator application has
been developed via capstone. The Class And Staff Locator
Application is used to locate classrooms and allocate staffs
as per mentioned in their schedule. GPS (Global Positioning
System) and Google Maps have been joined to this app,
which plays the role of locating and tracking to reach desired
destination. Location manager has been used for enabling the
GPS system in java coding section which uses longitude and
latitude of the device and hence enabling users to find current
location of this application, map library has been used to
convert longitude and latitude values into address of streets.
Some Location based services intrudes Maps, MapActivity (a
Location based API which is used to show location on the
map). Map View has been used to display a view of map.
MapActivity is used for controlling MapView. Location based
API is used to locate user’s current position and display that
location on map and Google maps has been linked using
Fragment Activity in coding section.
In this [2] paper, the development of a real-time response
system has been done to intensify student’s involvement in
a class by means of keeping track of the attendance and
participation of students. The lecturer keeps track of every
student’s attendance. This helps to enhance the participation
of students and improves their attendance record. The access
card feature has been developed and card is provided to every
student and access is granted to get the teaching materials
provided by the teachers. This is basically for the shy students
those who are not very frank to the atmosphere. This way,
teachers keeps a note of the progress of the whole class.
In this [3] paper, a test-based assessment system has been
proposed. Students can take tests or can review their past tests
on mobile devices, which reduces the hefty task of marking
much number of test papers. Database of the proposed system
consists of basic level tests for junior high school students in
Taiwan. Teachers are having the benefit of composing digital
test sheet by selecting questions from the given database.
Teachers are also able to design their own questions. After the
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completion of the test, test results can be obtained immediately
by the teachers.
In this [4] paper, a mobile application has been developed
for academic library which involves identifying services pro-
vided through library relevant to particular mobile user, de-
velopment costs has been cut short by utilization of a number
of open-source components, and results of the application has
been evaluated. The features of the system includes: Library
mobile website content, Mobile catalog, QR code scanner, and
an Interactive library map.
In this [5] paper a feedback system for multiple user has
been developed for a better learning in classrooms (rather
cooperative). This system provides interactive mobile learn-
ing through a game-based approach to improve student’s a
collaborative learning. Students are learning to work as a
team to accomplish a common aim, this is making them
adaptive to the atmosphere and social development. The app
has been intervened into different parts: Streaming camera,
Media stream server, Screen recorder and Streaming video
wall.
In this [6] paper, the Android application development
challenge for colleges have been surveyed. This is an Android
developer contest aimed at the college students in China.
This contest had been held for two times since 2010. The
main motive of this challenge is to motivate the college
students to design and implement their applications using the
Android platform. It gives students an opportunity to showcase
their creativity and learn about the development of Android
applications. The target of this contest is to keep the interest in
the students intact rather increasing and to acknowledge other
Students from other universities and regions about this contest
so that an awareness about such development contest takes
place and more number of students participate. The Android
Application Development College Challenge is organised by
Google to provide a platform to college students so that they
can discuss and communicate the ideas and technology. The
contest not only elevate student’s creativity and practice, but
also teaches about being a team player.
In this [7] paper, a mobile application named Fer Droid
has been developed used for the collection of data from
different students through this application. This application
saves students precious time and gives an opportunity to
contribute their time on other activities like studying, leisures,
extra-cirricular activities. This application is both subjective
and objective as per the student’s survey. The analysis of Fer
Droid has concluded that students happy with this application
and satisﬁed at the same time as they can retrieve information
quicker than earlier by the help of this application.
In this [8] paper, a simple programming methodology has
been developed which is based on MVP architecture to help
the students to fabricate mobile applications in Android. The
main idea of this is to design a set of methods, which is sorted
and simple, so that any student can learn and develop a com-
plete android app. The MVP architecture comprises of: model
(that is enclosed with business objects), view (that comprises
of all the UI components which makes the application and
forwards the interaction in between operations to the presenter)
and presenter (that contains all the logic for the application).
In this [9] paper, an online physical simulation platform
has been developed for Android programmers. Users those
are basically students upload the Android applications to the
server, which is connected to many mobiles. The screen of
the phone is visible to the client because of the VNC Sever.
This paper has proposed an online platform for physical
simulation in Android programming for the interested students.
The online simulation platform consists of three layers: the
Device Layer , it is a collection of embedded software running
on smart phones, next is the Application Service Layer which
is a bridge between the other two layers and it runs on
an application server, next is the Operation Layer which is
designed for the students living in remote areas, who can
access the smart phone via a VNC Viewer client.
In this [10] paper, an university based application has been
created which includes the university level stuffs those are list
of holidays, syllabus, question papers and academic calender
in the form of pdf that is stored into google drive for easy
access. It includes another catchy feature which is ”Ask your
queries” which will let the users to clear any queries regarding
the application usage or the material usage. Students are able
to enjoy the easy access of the important requirements through
this application. Application .apk ﬁle has been retrived on the
android device to access the application.
In this [11] paper, deals with the institute based require-
ments which help students to access the documents from a
single place. Various forms and formats have been included
in the application in the form of pdf and stored in google
drive. Application size is also very nominal, won’t acquire
much space which is one of the advantages of this app. One
exciting feature of this application is ”feedback” portal, which
lets the users to share their ratings and helps the developers to
acknowledge the factual description of the application usage
leading this app to improve and making it better.
III. METHODOLOGY
The system has been designed on android for keeping the
versatility of the application building intact. This application is
the summed up version of all the essentials for the graduation
level students. System proposed is fabricated on android
studio with the layout designing done on .xml extension.
Students will be delighted to have all in one featured app.
This application centralize itself on the effortless access of
the question papers, video lectures, newspaper etc. at a single
place. Students will be served with most comfortable access
related to their education entitled with the university. As far
as the technicalities are concerned, the features which catches
eye are the video lectures linked in the app. itself. This is
done through linking the API in the coding section. Parent-
teacher portal has been designed and a separate forum has been
fabricated for the interaction purpose. Newspapers have been
added through their API source code (source code is must to
avoid copyright issues).
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A. Architecture
The above figure shows the flow chart of the proposed
architecture.
Fig. 1. System Architecture
Technologies used are described :
1.FIREBASE MESSAGING SERVICES: firebase messag-
ing services has been used to synchronise application data
across clients. It is a platform solution for messages and
notification for android and without any cost. The coding has
been shared :-
Fig. 2. Coding firebase messaging service
2. NEWSPAPER LINKING: newspaper has been linked to
the app through its API in coding section. Following are the
results:
Fig. 3. Newspaper linking code
3. SEPARATE WEBSITE: application will contain separate
website of its own for the parent-teacher interaction and other
app related information will be included.
Fig. 4. Glimpse of Application website
IV. RESULTS
The experimental results are shown below:
Fig. 5. News xml file
Fig. 6. Application screen view with institute section
Fig. 7. Snapshot of application of university section
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V. CONCLUSION
This paper has been built in a way to make any reader
understand the complete working of the application. This
application will not only give students a platform of every
usefull documents but will keep them entertained by using
the ask your queries block, video lectures and e-newspaper
section. This application gives a complete exposure to the new
and old questions, prior requirement of any student studying
in any graduation school. Main moto of this application is user
friendly and anyone can use it very easily moreover, this will
capture only few MB of spcace in any android device.
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VI. BIOGRAPHY
Ishani Mukherjee is pursuing Bachelor’s
degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand University, Bhilai from
Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Mokshada Patra is pursuing Bachelor’s
degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand University, Bhilai from
Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Aman Bansal is pursuing Bachelor’s de-
gree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand University, Bhilai from Bhilai
Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Rahul Pal is pursuing Bachelor’s de-
gree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from
Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand University, Bhilai from Bhilai
Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Md. Khaja Mohiddin is pursuing his
Ph.D. Degree in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks from
GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, earned his M. Tech. De-
gree in the field of Digital Electronics and Communication
Systems in 2012, earned his B. Tech. Degree in ECE in 2009
from Al-Ameer College of Engineering and Information Tech-
nology, Visakhapatnam affiliated to JNTU Kakinada. Then
worked as a Lecturer for 1 year till 2010 in Al-Ameer College
of Engineering and Information Technology, Visakhapatnam.
Thereafter joined MATS School of Engineering, Raipur as
Assistant Professor for 2 years till June 2012 and finally joined
Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur as Senior Assistant
Professor from July 2012 to till date. He is having 8.5 Years
of Experience in the field of teaching. His Area of Expertise
includes: Electromagnetic Waves, Antenna and Wave Propa-
gation, Radar Engineering, Wireless Communication etc. Also
having the technical knowledge related to Embedded Systems,
Image Processing, Network Simulation etc.
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