Report on
ANDROID NETWORK APPLICATION TO VISUALIZE DATA FROM LONDON DATA STORE
Submitted for assessment of
SOFTWARE FOR NETWORK & SERVICES DESIGN (SNS)
Supervisor:
Dr. Miguel Rio
Senior Lecturer, EE, UCL
Submitted by:
XIHAO CHEN
SN: 12048166
MSc Telecommunications 2012-2013
Contents
PART - I 1
1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 TEAM MEMBERS 2
3 ANDROID NETWORK APPLICATION 2
3.1 Description 2
3.2 Objectives 2
3.3 Modules 2
3.3.1 Graphical Interface Module (GUI) 3
3.3.2 Route Finding Algorithm 3
3.3.3 Network Interface & Database Acquisition 3
3.3.4 Real Time Data Acquisition & Presentation 3
3.3.5 Map Presentation 3
3.4 Technical Specifications 3
3.5 Salient Features 7
3.6 Future Extensions 7
PART - II
4 database acquisition 8
4.1 XML 8
4.2 PARSING XML 9
4.2.1 DOM 9
4.2.2 SAX 9
4.2.3 PULL PARSER 10
4.3 PROGRAM-PULL PARSER 13
5 CONCLUSION 12
APPENDIX 13
PART - I
1. INTRODUCTION
Communicating with friends, reading morning newspaper, listening to our favourite music, ordering grocery, paying the electric bill, playing games and a lot more of our daily activities can be done on our smart phone today. In addition of having a large number of high performance electronic hardware, our smart phone uses a powerful & specialized operating system as well.
Google Android is world’s most widely used platform for smart phones, tablet computers and other mobile touch screen devices apart from having few applications in Television and other electronics. It holds a massive 75% share of the world smart phone market. Android offers a light weight and customizable operating system. Being open source code, Android attracts a large number of application programmers. This project entails one such application for Android platform.
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