Android-based mobile academic information using push notification for supporting the student’s academic activities: A case study

This research aimed to build a prototype model for android-based mobile academic information using push notification for supporting the student’s academic activities. The prototype model purpose is to build mechanism of information spread from university to its students rapidly. Therefore, the students can receive the information as soon as possible as long as they access their smartphone. The prototype model is using prototyping method for developing the mock-up and several processes namely application architecture design, push service configuration, prototype implementation, and testing. This prototype model was tested using the system usability scale (SUS) Brooke version and a questionnaire with Likert scale. The testing results reveal that this prototype model is feasible and 87.88% of the respondents definitely agree that this mechanism can potentially help their academic activities. This result was influenced with the limitation of respondents and the difficulty of installed the client side application manually. The prototype model can be the model for university information academic system for delivering the information to their students effectively.