Design and Development of Android Based Mobile Application for Specially Abled People

Technology has been advancing day by day and smart phones are providing challenges for the development of latest and sophisticated mobile applications. Talkback feature of Android makes it easy to access touch screen devices, but specially abled people are facing various problems in existing mobile applications. All mobile applications are not following the feature of Talkback and there is a lack of tactile feature. Considering these points, the present study is an attempt to develop a mobile application based on voice and gestures to provide communication services to specially abled people. The mobile application has been developed with the help of android studio and a special mobile case. The mobile case designed to help the beginners of developed mobile application. Color combination technique of green computing has been used to design the layout of mobile application for saving power. Four edge method has also been used in the designing part of mobile application’s layout to make it more accessible. The findings of the study revealed that the developed mobile application helps the end user to access features of mobile phone such as call, message, date, time etc. The developed mobile application assists the specially abled people having visual impairment or totally blind. The paper elaborates the design and development phase of mobile application in detail. Furthermore, applications of developed mobile applications have also been highlighted.