AN EASY CONTEXT BASED MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

Abstract

In today’s era, mobile social networking becomes part of life of the people. There are more than 6000 location based applications in the market which are used for online social networking. These applications use some utilities like Global Positioning System (GPS), Geo-coding, Location Based Services (LBS), etc. to provide their location functionalities to the user. Also there are many applications which provide sharing information and messaging services to the users, like WhatsApp. But there is no application available which provides communication between users within some range of current location (context) of the user. We exploit some findings and local attachment model evaluations to describe a new model of context based social networking approach for mobiles that combines spatial proximity, social networking and mobility factors. So this new approach is basically different from previous social network designs with respect to its current context based services made available to users. In this paper, we present a context-based mobile social networking application, which offers chatting service to the users within same range of location. Context is defined as predefined range of the current location of user. By using this application, users can communicate with their friends who are within their context specified by application. This approach of application provides the user to chat with only those friends who are spatially near to the user. An Android Operating System provides features which helps in realization of this application