Abstract – When it comes to basic rights, education is one of the most important ones. Education is necessary regardless of where you were born or where you grew up. In this era when communication is developing rapidly, it is high time to ensure that education reaches everybody’s doorstep. There is a saying ‘knowledge increase by sharing but not by saving’. And to share knowledge, book is the best thing to share. But sharing a book is not always convenient and sometimes annoying too as many of those people never return these books. This paper presents an online platform for sharing knowledge or more elaborately to share and rent books and a platform to discuss books. The motto of the proposed model is to reduce the problem of sharing the book and also to build a community of book readers. This system is a platform for anyone who has a book and is not using it right now and would like to share the books with someone who currently needs it. In this developing country, to buy a book is costly and as people normally keep the book idle after reading; so, it is better to share or sell the book to someone who may need it. So, the main theme is, ‘maximum use of the book, minimum use of money’. The proposed model uses the basis of regular social transactions and comprises them into a business model. It mainly focuses on the customer to the customer business model and creates a patronizing and adjuvant platform for both the user and providers. It depicts the challenges related to starting a new platform, identifying the right people, creating and interacting with people and developing a business model in a developing country. The proposed model is deployed on an android app by which the user will connect. Some key features are unique login, wallet system, my desk, location of a user, chatting between users, etc.
Keywords: books, android, java, firebase, chatting, location, book sharing
[Cite as: Masud, J., Masum, M. B., Tabassum, M., Farhana, T., and Chowdhury, S. (2020). The Design of an Android-Based Mobile Application for Book Sharing. Diverse Journal of Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Pages 10-14.]
