A.LINGESWARI#1 ,C.SHOBANA#2, D.BHAVANI#3
#ECE, VEL TECH MULTI TECH Dr.RANGARAJAN Dr.SAKUNTHALA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
No.60, AVADI-ALAMATHI ROAD,CHENNAI-600062,TAMILNADU,INDIA
1jo.lingeswari@gmail.com.
2shobi_choki@yahoo.com
3bhavaniece26@gmail.com
Abstract—Android platform is a new generation of smart mobile phone platform launched by Google. Android provides the support of mobile map and location service, which is probably a concern of vast numbers of developers. So far, the development of mobile map and location applications is complex and difficult, and is often required to pay high copyright fees to map makers. Android is free and open, providing an easy-to-use development kit containing flexible map display and control functions. Bluetooth provides a low -power and low -cost wireless connection amo ng mob ile d evices an d th eir a ccessories, which is an open standard for implementing a short-range wireless communication. Blue tooth is integrated into Android which is a mainstream smart phone platform as a mean of mobile communication. This paper integrates these services and use this combination to locate the employee within the company and pass the information secretely using Bluetooth chat room technology.
Keywords--Android; location based service; driving trace; Bluetooth; chat room
I. INTRODUCTION
The Open Handset Alliance released the Google Android SDK on November 12, 2007 . The conception of the Android platform is attracting more and more programmers in mobile computing fields. Android is a package of software for mobile devices, including an operating system, middleware and core applications. The Android SDK provides powerful tools and APIs necessary to develop applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
Android also supports GPS, VideoCamera, compass, and 3d-accelerometer and provides rich APIs
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