IRJET- TRACKITUP-An Android Application to Track Multiple Users

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
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TRACKITUP-An Android Application to Track Multiple Users
Priya N V1, Saipriya G2, Varshini H S3, Yashaswini K4
1,2,3,4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
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Abstract - At the present situation, the location of a person
can be shared with another person or can be tracked using
navigation technologies. But tracking amongagroupofusers,
friends or family through these applications is not possible.
While communicating with others, security and privacy plays
an important role. Henceforth, there is a need for an
application that can allow multiple users to track each other
in a safe and a secure way. Tracking based applications have
been quite popular in recent times. Most of them have been
limited in tracking an individual (e.g. location sharing).
However, not much work has been done towards design of a
group tracking system. This research work is an attempt to
design such group trackingsystem. Thisapplication, Trackitup
would allow multiple users to track each othersimultaneously
with the help of GPS and make sure that accessing is safe and
secure. It would allow users to create or join new groups
through new unique codes and also provide a simple user-
friendly interface.
Key Words: tracking, user, group, location, security
1. INTRODUCTION
Android is an operating system as well as a programming
platform for smart phones and other mobile devices. It has
been developed by Google. It can run on different devices
produced by various manufacturers. It includes a software
development kit for including the original code and
assembling the software modules so as to create
applications for the Android users. It also provides a
marketplace for distributing the developed apps.
Altogether, it represents an entire ecosystem for mobile
based apps.
Earlier, the Android development was extended using
the Eclipse platformwiththe AndroidDevelopmentKit (ADK),
provided by Google. This is based on IntelliJ IDEA, which is
an IDE that supports Android, but is quite expensive.
The Android Studio IDE has certain advantages like, the
gradle dependency manager whichisalsobasedon IntelliJ,is
largely used world-wide. This is the great power of the
platform editor as it provides more options to the developer
at the time of development.
Android Studio can be installed on Windows, Linuxand,OSX
operating systems and it has been recommended by Google
itself that the hardware must at least have a memory of 4 GB
and a free hard disk space of around 1GB, but it is strongly
recommended that the system must have more memory, as
it was noted that Android Studio is still a little slow.
Java must be installed on the machine via the Java
Development Kit, so that it can be utilized for all Java
development classes that would be present on the machine.
In today’s world tracking systems have become popular.
There have been many applications that support tracking
another person, a vehicle, pets and so on. Application that
allows users to track each other through their android
phones, has a wide scope, since, mobile communication is
the most common mode of communication. It basically
works on tracking the positioning of mobile phone with the
help of location-based servicesthatdisclosetheco-ordinates
of the device.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Mobile phones provide a convenientanda commonplatform
for the detection of personal information such as location.
The system is able to trace the location of a friend, and then
this information is processed further to be displayed on the
user’s phone.
The system can trace the location of a group of friends on a
screen and the group function is a feature of the system
which sets it unique from previous projectsinthesamearea.
Another different feature of the system is the option to set
dynamic reminder as per the user’s needs.
Software life cycle model describes the phases of the
software cycle and the order in whichthose phaseswould be
executed. Each phase produces an output required by the
next phase in the life cycle. Requirements are convertedinto
a design. Code is produced according to the design and this
phase is called development phase. After coding and
developing, the testing verifies the output from the
implementation phase against requirements. Here, the agile
development cycle is meant for the development of the code
of the proposed system. As per the key principle of agile
development, the testing is integrated throughout the
lifecycle, allowing regular inspection of the workingproduct
as it develops. [1]
As there exists a great demand for smartphones, mobiles,
iPhones, and all the gadgets emerging today, it’s important
for the mobile users to have the location basedservices.This
application provides a client server system that helps the
user to track their friends, and receive the alert message
when nearby, based on the radius defined by the
administrator.

Two methods are proposed to increase the accuracy of
positioning system in cellular networks: - a two-step
position determination method and a one-step method. In
the two-step position determination method, the position
determination is performed as the first step by applying
optimization techniques along with NLOS mitigation
technique to produce initial position approximation. In one-
step position determination method, a scheme is proposed
for the position determination, which handles the two
processes in a single step. [2]
This application uses an automated mechanism for timeand
attendance monitoring errors of the manual system is
reduced and optimal amount of time is conserved. But these
systems usually require heterogeneousdevicestobelocated
in the organization, which is expensive.
In this paper, by considering the popularity of smartphones,
there is a usage of smartphone for the time and attendance
tracking purpose which is implemented as an Android
application.
This application communicates with the remote server in
which the database is located. Internet connectivity is
needed for connecting to the database in the remote server.
The proposed system does not require any kind of
peripheral device other than the smart. Any employee
crossing the area border with a smartphone andtherunning
application will be tracked automatically. [3]
This GPS based application is an application developed in
order to provide on-time security to the adolescent child
through the technological rearing.
This application is specially developed for the parents to
track their adolescent child’s activity by monitoring his/her
entire call logs, duration of each call log, messages sent and
received, GPS location with the help of IMEI number. The
parent receives this data in the form of an alert SMS to the
smart device. [4]
This application requires a regular mobile phone which is
equipped with a GPS receptor and is connected to GSM. It
gives the data regarding the user’s location through a web
server to other people. This application uses a technique to
send GPS co-ordinates to other phones via SMS,basedonthe
GPS technology and allows the user to view their location on
Google maps.
The main advantage of this system is that it provides user
the ability to locate a friend and send their own location via
SMS and share the location through a web server. [5]
3. METHODOLOGY
TrackItUp, focuses mainly on a set of users tracking each
other as a group. Each individual user gets registered with
the application using a unique code and shares this code
with other users in order to form a group. New users who
wish to join this group can register with the same code and
use the application. After successful registration, people in
the group can track each other simultaneously, in a secure
way. If the user wishes to form another group, he can do so
by registering with another unique code.
• Choosing a basic front endlook oftheapplicationand
creating it through XML files
• Adding the additional widgets like buttons, spinner,
checkbox, progressbarandsettingtheviewsthrough
XML layouts
• Implementing functionalities or working of each of
the widgets through Java files
• Creating newer pages by adding a new activity each
time
• Modifying dependencies based on permissions
required
• Connecting firebase database in order to save the
details of the registered person
• Establishing a connection between the computer
system and the android phone and run the
application
Fig-1: General representation of working of this
application
Working: The computer system is connected to an android
device. The application would run on the Android Studio
software and the application gets installed on the respective
android device.
After having installed the application on the android device,
the user then registers into the application by entering the
required personal details such as name, phone number,
password and unique key code.
He can use either the same or a different unique code
depending on the group he wishes to join.
The users will have to enable GPS locator and must be
willing to permit certain location based requests.
The user can then add many trusted users into a group or
can create, participate or join other groups.
Android devices
Computer system
GPS tower

Once group is created, they can mutually track each other,
share unique keys and manage groups.
4. DATAFLOW DIAGRAMS
LEVEL 0:
The below diagram shows the overall working of this
application.
Fig-1: Level 0 DFD
The working is as follows:
• The ‘n’ number of users are connected to the
application- Trackitup.
• The user provides input in the form of user credentials
like name, phone number, password, email id, unique
code, etc., during registration; details like name and
password while logging in to the application.
• The user also provides input to the application in the
form of clicking(for selection) an option of their choice,
for the processes such as selection of contacts, choosing
a group, and for updating certain data.
• The application performs the processing of data on the
basis of the user input and the choice thus made.
• The application generates an output in the form of
display of the corresponding event, validation of the
inputted data for its authenticity, or the output can also
involve storage of entered data into the databasei.e.,the
firebase in this case.
• The data in the firebase can be either updated, inserted
or deleted, depending on the choice made by the user.
LEVEL 1:
This level depicts the basic modules that exist within the
project component. The user interacting withtheapplication
can communicate with these three basic modules:
Fig-2: Level 1 DFD
Login:
• The user enters the basic details like name and
password. If the user has not yet been registered or is
newly joining a group, then he might be redirected to
the signup page by choosing the ‘Signup’ option .
• If the user already has a valid account, he can directly
login by entering the valid data.
• The correctness of the user entered data is checked in
order to ensure data authentication.
Signup:
• If the user is new or he wishes to join a different group
,he enters the necessary details like name, phone
number, password, email id and unique code, in the
signup page.
• The user can then access his account after successful
registration.
Dashboard:
• After successful registration, theusercanloginandheis
directed to the dashboard pagewheretheactual work of
the application can be experienced.
• This page includes four main options namely, share
code, contacts, settings and current location.
• The user can share the code through options like gmail,
messenger, drive, whatsapp, etc,

5. IMPLEMENTATION
Fig-1: Splash page
• The splash page appears for a predefined time of few
seconds, showing the logo and the name of this
application, "Trackitup".
• Login page is loaded directly after the splash page,
especially for the first time users. It contains user name
and the password field. Thenewusercanclick onsignup
button inorder to register,whileanalreadyexistinguser
can directly login usingtheappropriateusercredentials.
• After successfully logging in, the actual dashboardofthe
application is displayed. The spinnerconsistsoftheuser
names. On selecting any one, the user details such asthe
user name, address, phone number,lastsynceddateand
time are displayed.
Fig-2: Navigational panel
• Onto the left of the dashboard screen is the navigation
panel, which opens up on clicking the 'menu' symbol on
the left top end of the dashboard. This contains 'my
contacts', 'share', 'settings' and 'logout' options.
• The contacts list in the application opens on clicking the
'my contacts' option. It provides an option to place a call
to the people in the list.
Fig-3: List of users
• In the dashboard, the spinner provides a drop down list
that presents the names of users in that group.
• The map, a sliding panel at the bottom of the dashboard
screen can be dragged out to use map option.
Fig-4: Marker showing multiple users’ current location
• This figures shows the google map with multiple users
in the group being tracked simultaneously, and each
user is represented with a marker.
• On clicking the marker, the user name and his current
address is displayed.
6. RESULTS
This application allows multiple users to track each other
simultaneously through location access i.e., GPS. It allows
users to create or join new groups through new unique
codes, thereby providing a safer approach through a simple
user-friendly interface.
7. CONCLUSIONS
GPS is a wonderful tool of this century that offers much
functionality. Thisapplicationtherebyprovidesthefacilityto
not just track each other but also track many users
simultaneously.

This application follows an approach to track users without
compromising for privacy and security. Future
enhancements would include features for the betterment of
our project.
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