Aplicativo de comunidade virtual para a prática de esportes voltada para dispositivos móveis

Abstract

Currently the lack of time has hindered the practice of sports by people, and even harder to meet with others interested in the same sport. The use of mobile applications by people of various ages, education level or class are taking every day more frequent, especially those related to social networks. Allied to these two facts, the development of technologies for mobile environments such as Android have also been widely used, considering its portability with various types of mobile phones and their base on Java technology, which facilitates the development. Thus, this work aims to develop an application based on Android technology, featured as a virtual community focused on sports, which facilitates the search for people and sports activities events, enhancing the relationship between people who practice a particular sport, which the user can interact with other athletes and invite your related friends to sporting events created in the application, making better the communication and organization of sporting events. For this, studies were conducted on social networks and virtual communities, the different mobile platforms and in specific the Android platform, and similar applications already developed. After studies were extracted requirements and needs of the application, generating the modeling of the system. Finally, the application has been deployed, and is contained in this work the screens and the developed code with your explanations.