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Smart Office: Development of a Mobile Application for Android with
Firebase Services Oriented to GroupMe Messaging
Liliana Enciso
1,2
, Jos
´
e Guarnizo
2
, Edisson Torres
2
and Pablo Alejandro Quezada-Sarmiento
3
1
Grupo Investigaci
´
on IoT - Network Communications on Smart Environment, Universidad T
´
ecnica Particular de Loja, San
Cayetano Alto, Loja, Ecuador
2
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computaci
´
on y Electr
´
onica, Universidad T
´
ecnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto,
Loja, Ecuador
3
Escuela de Inform
´
atica y Multimedia, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Keywords:
GroupMe Messaging, Firebase, Chat, Android, Smart, Mobile Application.
Abstract:
The courier service GroupMe is born for the need to manage instantaneous messages for groups of persons
in particular, especially the chat the public enjoys good reputation in general. Nevertheless, it plays a funda-
mental role in the growth and Internet expansion. The applications of courier service GroupMe have taken
big part of the market and have turned into a tool of work more and more used in personal, professional,
social ambiences and into emergency situations. The mobile application under the name of the messaging
FriendsChats GroupMe: Account with a service provided by Google called Firebase, which allows you to
store the information in the cloud quickly and safely. In view of the fact that applications that offer the same
service of communication have been developed with primitive tools such as the cloud storage (no security),
for this reason it is advisable to implement Firebase, the same that provides read / write rules, avoiding new
safety rules. The project was carried out in O.S. Android with the participation of two specialists: a functional
development and another one of the interface. Implementing Firebase to Android, any information that is
entered in the database is synchronized with different devices with the application.
1 INTRODUCTION
The Messaging GroupMe is one of the ways of com-
munication with friends immediately via the Internet.
Cited in the paper (Trigo and Mart
´
ın, 2006). It must
be borne in mind that should not be compared with
the Email (EC), as these are very different tools for
communication. Published in (A. and G., 2017).
One of the big differences between GroupMe and
EC; is that with the GroupMe you can witness to
friends, that is to say it is known when you are con-
nected in the instant, in contrast with the EC, it would
have to wait for the recipient to go to the mailbox and
review the messages. The same thing happens in other
applications like (Enciso et al., 2018), (Enciso et al.,
2017).
Currently, GroupMe has given a shift toward mo-
bile applications, cross-platform applications or web
services that require no application to operate, obtai-
ned from the article (Guru, 2016).
GroupMe allows communication with all con-
nected systems, playing exactly in favor of those who
communicate. There are also conferences in group,
are instant and can be sent to multiple contacts at the
same time. Mentioned in the blog (Apple, 2015)
Based on studies of market, will be used these de-
vices to be able to create the application mentioned
above. Today, around 49% are Smartphone devices.
Mentioned in the report (Nielsen, 2012), the which al-
lows for greater expansion in the use of the developed
application. Published in the article (Vidal, 2012).
We analyzed the services offered Firebase, as it
is since it came on the market has been very welco-
med by many developers, because that offers reliabi-
lity, security and speed in the handling of information.
Quoted in the blog (Alvarez, 2016).
In the present is proposed to carry out a applica-
tion of GroupMe (group messages), integrating the
services of Firebase and TinyBD. Giving the struc-
ture and functioning of the databases in real time. Re-
ferente to blog (Anton, 2015).
It is not intended do an application with such mag-
nitude as WhatsApp or Messenger, applications with
a large global market; but if, an app that allows com-
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Enciso, L., Guarnizo, J., Torres, E. and Quezada-Sarmiento, P.
Smart Office: Development of a Mobile Application for Android with Firebase Services Oriented to GroupMe Messaging.
DOI: 10.5220/0007235204540461
In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2018), pages 454-461
ISBN: 978-989-758-324-7
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