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system by utilizing the Java programming language. For this project Android SDKAPI level 14 was used. The ADT (Android Development Tools) plugin along withEclipse provides all the tools needed to start programming for Android[1]. The SDKallows the user to setup virtual devices using the Virtual Devices Manager.Thisdevice emulation is useful for testing dierent API levels but is very slow. As such, Ideveloped mostly using a hardware device attached via USB.Also provided by Google is their close-source Google Apps for Android. Installingthese with the SDK manager allowed me to use the Google Maps library. An Androidapplication is made up of one or more Activities. Android Activities have the lifecycledetailed in Figure 1. For this project background threads were utilized for networkoperations such as HTTP requests and this meant thread management had to be keptin mind during all the states of the Activity lifecycle to avoid having resources usedwhen not needed.8
Figure 1: Android Activity Lifecycle1.2.2 SQLite DatabaseThe Android operating system ships with a relational database called SQLite. SQLiteis a like-weight database which can be used to store data on the. For this project itwas used to keep persistent data such as the user's favourite bus stops. The AndroidAPI provides a class SQLiteDatabase which exposes methods to manage an SQLitedatabase in Java[2].9
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