Mobile Application Development for Seismic Disaster Precaution: The Android APP Prototype

Mobile Application Development for Seismic Disaster Precaution: The Android APP Prototype

This study develops a mobile application(APP) that supports seismic disaster precaution. The APP is designed to offer the mobile interface of the early seismic loss estimation(ESLE) module of Taiwan Earthquake Loss Estimation System(TELES). Considering Google's Android is the most popular mobile platform, the APP will be developed for Android mobile devices so that most people may exploit its services. In 2013, we carried out a requirement analysis that helped us determine what functions the APP should offer. An APP prototype was then created to discover the difficulties we will encounter in the APP development, deployment, and user-application.