DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW ANDROID SOCIAL MEDIA APPLICATION

Abstract

These days, the introduction of social media applications makes communication simpler and faster. Social media are interactive computer interceded innovations that encourage the creation and sharing of data, thoughts, profession interests and different types of articulation through virtual networks and systems. This project is a social media application based on the Android platform. The application has been named Yɛnkɔnecti. The application is not only used for socialization but can also serve a platform that facilitates monetary transactions and other electronic commerce activities such as buying and selling, a platform that provides users with current news from across the globe and ability to provide users with locations of nearby hospitals, restaurants and fuel stations. The application has a front-end and a back-end. The front end of the Yɛnkɔnecti social media application was developed with Java and XML. In developing the back end of the Yɛnkɔnecti application, the Firebase framework and Google Maps API were used. It is hoped that after this project everyone would be aware that social media application can be used for more than just socialization