Development of a mobile application for the Android platform

The aim of the thesis is to present an example of mobile application development on the Android platform. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the presentation of the tools and technologies used in mobile applications development. While describing the technologies we are focused on the theoretical description of mobile technologies such as mobile networks, mobile devices, smart mobile phones, mobile operating systems and mobile operating system Android. In the theoretical part of the thesis we also present different development environment tools, with special emphasis on the description of less known tools such as Android SDK tools. The second part of the thesis presents the development of the mobile application AvtoDroid. First we describe the methodology and the idea of application development, followed by a detailed description of the various stages of our application development (analysis and requirements specification, design, implementation and testing). In conclusion we analyze application development and we also present a plan for improvement and further development of the application. The result of the thesis is AvtoDroid mobile application that allows a number of features, related to the monitoring car costs. We can use this application on any mobile device which uses operating system Android