Development of Android mobile application using Java programming language

Gleb Dmitrievsky

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The food wasting problem is unlikely to be one of the most discussed problems. But the fact is that about one third of the food produced globally for human consumption is wasted or lost. It has a huge negative economic impact on the income of food producers and customers. The population is rapidly growing and the demand of natural resources does not decrease. People can consume nature's resources in different ways, for example, by producing electronics. As to now, there are about 3 billion smartphones today. The Android operating system is installed on almost 2.5 billion mobile devices. Why not try to use smartphones to help us reduce the food wasting problem? This thesis is focused on the development of the FoodNoWaster Android application which should help to solve the food wasting problem. The application was written using the Java programming language for core logic. The core of the application was written with the OOP approach. The User Interface of the FoodNoWaster application was built with XML layout files. The FoodNoWaster application stores the user’s data in the SQLite database. When the food item is approaching its expiration date, the user will be notified about that. The result of this thesis is ready to use the FoodNoWaster application, which is being used by the author and his relatives.

Keywords

Java programming, OOP, Android, mobile application development, SQLite database, food waste problem

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 31. 3. 2021

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Vojtěch Merunka, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics