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AN ANDROID APPLICATION FOR THE PROVISION OF AGRICULTURAL
INFORMATION TO FARMERS AND COMMU1~ITY
A CASE OF LWERU PARISH IN BUlKWE DISTRICT
DECLARATION:
DEDICATION:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: iv
ABSTRACT:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS viii
CHAPTER ONE 1
1 .0 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Statement of the Problem I
1.3 Objectives of the study 2
1.3.1 General Objective: 2
1 .3.2 Specific Objectives 2
1.4 Scope of the Project 2
1.4.1 Geographical Scope 2
1.4.2 System Scope 3
1.5 Significance of the Study 3
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Review of Relevant Papers 4
2.1.1 Crop Trak Project 4
2.1.2 Comparison of ICrop Trak and Farming Projects 5
2.1.3 Farm Manager Project 5
2.1.4 Comparison of Farm Manager and Farming Instructor Projects 5
2.1.5 Farm PAD Project 5
2.1.6 Comparison of Farm PAD and Farming Projects 6
2.2 Android Platform 6
2.3 General Android Architecture 6
2.3.1 Features and their Roles 8
2.4 Deployment of Android Application 8
2.5 Future of Android 9
2.6 Other Mobile Development Platforms 9
2.6.1JME 9
2.6.2 Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 10
2.7 Comparison of the Development Environments 10
2.7.1 Comparing the Final Product 11
2.7.2 Use Case for Farming application 12
2.8 showing Mobile Application Development Methodology V3 adapted from Mobinex,
ABSTRACT
The generation of this is intended to show whatever that was covered in the field of research that took place between the months of December 2012 and January 2013. It shows the different areas in which skills were acquired. It also seeks to show how the acquisition of these skills benefited a person who took research, the challenges that were met and solutions used. In our research we covered mobile development platform, deployment of android application This still comprises of Microsoft.NET compact framework of the development environment