GiftScroll – An Online Gift Registry for the Android Mobile Phone
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Description
Smart-phone ownership rates are on the rise and An-droid is one of the fastest growing mobile-phone op-erating systems. Developers can now take advantage of creating mobile applications that provide utilities that were never before possible. Various libraries available for the Android phone have been created, and provide a starting point for creating useful appli-cations. One such application is ZebraCrossing, a barcode scanning application that returns the bar-code type and barcode value to a developer. This in-formation can then be sent to Google to receive an XML file containing information about the product, such as its name and description. Various functions built-in to Android can also help a developer create useful applications quickly, such as Android’s loca-tion-aware technology. This paper reports on the development of an online gift registry for the Android phone using Zebra-Crossing and Android technolo-gies. Results and lessons learned are presented.
