Geografun: A Mobile-Based Application in Social Studies for Grade 7 Students

The global proliferation of mobile technology becomes increasingly relevant. New charms of learning, different techniques of studying and innovative software designs have gotten into children’s lives. The project which will provide new learning approach about geography was developed for children with the aim to benefit every individual. Users will gain knowledge in geography in the circumstance of the people, history, culture, environment and nature associated with places, including interpretation of the history of past and use to the future. The developers used Rapid Application Development Methodology to develop this application which breaks the overall system of the application into a series of phase where the first phase analyzed the overall concept of the application that leads into design. The development of the project was completed using appropriate software tools such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Adobe AIR. Meanwhile, the functionality of the codes was tested using different types of smart phones. To ensure the quality of the application, ISO 25010 software evaluation tool was utilized.