Development of an app for sharing and buddy searching

• Main Author: Chew, Cheng Tat
• Other Authors: Arokiaswami Alphones
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139992
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Meeting strangers has become a norm in the 21st century. Humans are comfortable with sharing rides with strangers on private hired vehicle such as Grab services in Singapore. Not only that, online dating sites like Tinder, has become popular with over 57 million users around the world. This shows that people are comfortable with meeting strangers in real life without even knowing the person. This project aims to develop a new mobile application called, “Let’s Kup!”, in which it fuses the idea of both Grab and Tinder services and with a tweak of adding other features to allow users share a promotional deal with a stranger. The idea of this mobile application can not only share the promotional deal with stranger, but it can also make friend with the person they have just met with by using the message platform. The implementation of this project has been done by using Android Studio in which multiple Java classes was created to functionalize every function in the mobile application. In order to keep the user updated on the promotional deal, an administrator panel has been created with Visual Studio to allow administrator to upload any incoming deals. The database of the application has been stored under a local database using PHPmyadmin and Xampp. This application has done its testing by going around certain part of Singapore in making sure that the function has met its criteria.