RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI PENCARIAN LOKASI TOKO OLEH-OLEH YOGYAKARTA DENGAN METODE LOCATION BASED SERVICE (LBS) BERBASIS ANDROID

The increasing enthusiasm of tourists toward various souvenir outlets in many tourism destinations, it makes emergence of many souvenirs outlet which offers variety kinds and prices are varied to the tourists. Yogyakarta has many souvenirs outlet with various kind and competitive prices. Information about point of souvenirs outlet usually obtained from a person, a brochure, or through to the website. In order to facilitate the tourists and people in searching information about souvenir outlets, it required an application that can find the location of souvenir outlets via Android smartphone. This application is a technology based mobile applications for Location Based Service (LBS) that use GPS (Global Positioning System) which built on the Android platform. This application uses Google Maps Api as a virtual map service. System development method that build this application is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method. It consists of five stages, that are the analysis of system requirements, system interface design, system implementation, system testing and system maintenance. This application is capable to display the user's location and souvenir outlets along with related information on the virtual map along with Google Maps driving route. It also provides the facility to call dialer the souvenirs outlets