Abstract – This paper aims to present a system that illustrates the
social nature of a human being – the need to be always in touch
with family and friends – taking into account facilities available
on Android platform. The role of this application is to create a
social network in which the users are being alerted when their
friends are around. This gives them the possibility to set up a
meeting or to avoid one. The users have the possibility to check in
some locations and allow their friends to follow their activity.
Taking into account the security of the users, we included in the
facilities of the application an option which allows close friends or
family to check the user’s location based on a keyword text
message. For this purpose, available Android location and
messages services are used for finding an approximate location of
a mobile phone running this program and then sharing it
through MeetYou or via SMS. Information is being displayed
using default components provided by Android platform and also
more complex elements including heterogeneous lists CWAC,
Google Maps and augmented reality using Mixare Library.