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Description
This era is well known for various types of Smartphones, Tablets and IPods and IPads. Smartphones or Tablets helps you to stay organized, flexible and provides faster but secure communication. It also helps you to stay in touch with your friends and relatives easily. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers. The SDSU Goggles is an android smartphone based application which provides the functionality of Rate and Review system. This functionality is capable of reviewing and rating professors' teaching skills, assignments and his/her proficiency for particular subject or class. Similarly, user can rate and review particular subject. This paper describes an experiment which integrated the application core framework into java language using android operating system, a program that support UI and service layer of a smartphone application, stores all the information into database, finally 'Data' which flows between server and application in JSON format. This application is user friendly. To use this application your smartphone must be connected with internet using Wi-Fi or 3G connection. After welcome screen user will see two options Search Professor or Search Subject. Using this functionality user can search professor by firstname or lastname. Similarly they can search subject by number. When user click on Search, application talks to server and finds all the professor or subject in to the list format. User need to decide which subject he/she wants to rate or review. After selection application shows them all the information of selection. Then user has 2 options review selection or rate selection. After rating and reviewing their selection application redirects them to information page again, where they can see their review and average rating. An interesting part of this application is very light weight communication in communication bus. I have used JSON. The benefits of JSON are it is smaller than XML and faster to work with, very efficient parsing, and many more.
