Research and Development of Mobile Application for Android Platform

Today, as the developing of hardware of mobile is getting better, the performance index is much higher than the actual requirements of the software configuration. Phone's features more depend on software. As the Android operating system is getting more popular, the application based on Android SDK attracts much more attention. But now, some of the Android application interface is too cumbersome, pop-up ads is overmuch and the function is too single, these cause some inconvenience to the users. This article presents the application by eliminating the redundancy. Three kinds of applications are developed base on Java and Android SDK --- Weibo client, video player and audio player. The audio player uses the ContentResolver and Curor to obtain music files and plays the music by using the Service Components to call the Media Player class in the background. The video player uses the Media Player class provided by Android SDK. This class loads the file through URL, realize the multimedia file parsing by calling the OpenCore Library, which is at the bottom of Android, through JNI and by calling the SurfaceFlinger interface to realize the video files’ playback. The users’ data is collected through the Sina open platform called by Sina client and the data will be returned under the format of JSON by the Sina server. The system uses the OAuth authentication method for user authorization to complete the login process. The specific functions of this system are developed based on Android Weibo SDK. The interfaces of these Android apps are pretty and the operation is smooth. What’s more, the cumbersome interface and excessive advertising are eliminated, so that users are able to manipulate these apps more conveniently and smoothly.

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