Development of an Android-based Student Information System Application

Today’s smartphones have developed into advanced computer systems with enormous photo and video capabilities, larger touch-screens, ubiquitous internet access, and powerful global positional location services. There are numerous applications available nowadays that provide a wide range of services to smartphones’ users in almost every area of daily life, such as communication, news, entertainment, maps, and education. The Student Information System, or SIS, is a service at the desktop computer-level provided by institutions of higher education to the students and faculty using which the students can gain access to their transcripts, get their semester timetable, register or drop courses, find out about the courses’ final examination timetable, or get general academic information. The faculty, using SIS, can access information pertaining to the students registered in their course, get detailed information about their advisees, or audit degrees when their advisees are close to graduation. In this paper, we have described the design of an SIS application developed for Android operating system so that, instead of using a computer system, both students and faculty can gain access to the academic information on-the-go through their smartphones on which this application has been installed. Initial tests have indicated positive experience encountered by both students and faculty upon using this application and efforts are underway to develop similar application for Apple’s iOS as well.

@article{Jamil2018,
  title     = {Development of an Android-based Student Information System Application},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {9},
  number    = {1},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Tariq Jamil and Iftaquaruddin Mohammed},
  doi       = {10.14569/SpecialIssue.2018.0901124},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/SpecialIssue.2018.0901124}
}