INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
FINAL YEAR PROJECT 1
(Chick-Droid)
AN ANDROID BASED MOBILE POULTRY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CASE STUDY: ANNETTEY AND SONS POULTRY FARMS
BY
QUAINOO DERRICK KOJO KWANSA
208IT02003920
DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BSC) IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SUPERVISOR:
MR. EDWARD ANSONG
DATE
9TH JANUARY, 2012
DECLARATION
This is to declare that, the research work underlying this thesis has been carried out by the under mentioned student under the supervisor. Both student and the supervisor certify that the work documented in this thesis is the output of the research conducted by the student as part of her final year project work in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree.
STUDENT: SUPERVISOR:
Quainoo Derrick Kojo Kwansa Mr. Edward Ansong
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CHAPTER 1
1.0. INTRODUCTION3
1.1 SUBJECT AND FIELD OF STUDY5
1.2 STUDY OBJECTIVES5 1.2.1 GLOBAL OBJECTIVES5 1.2.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES5
1.3 BACKGROUND OF STUDY6
1.4 SCOPE7
1.5 JUSTIFICATION7
1.6 METHODOLOGY8
1.7 EXPECTED RESULTS10
1.8 PRESENTATION OF THESIS10
1.9 STUDY WORK PLAN11
CHAPTER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION
The power of information technology has been felt in all the sectors around the world. With the introduction of mobile application development as an aspect of ICT there has been a huge improvement in the availability and portability of applications in our day to day business transactions.
Mobile application development is the course of action by which application software is designed and developed for hand-held devices like mobile phones, personal digital assistants, etc.
With regard to the Agricultural sector most
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