Development of mobile application for android platform : medical guide

Abstract EN

Developing smartphones leads to increase demands on verity of applications.

As the Android operating system is getting more popular, the application based on Android attracts much more attention especially Android is more flexible for designers and users than other mobile phone operating systems.

This paper presents an Android mobile phone application that developed to help patients to get information about the health issues in Kurdistan Region of Iraq with Kurdish Language.

The software works as a simple and efficient health directory to present what patients are needed.

The application is offline and it can be connected with the online website for extra information.

The user can check information via viewing the text information and finding the geographic places with an online map, besides that, the user can give rates for the parts of software.

The rate that users give to the participants re-appeared for other users in order the best participant (e.g.

Doctor, Pharmacy, etc…) can be chosen via rates of users.

The data is classified to some groups to facilitating the search.