Android based chatting application using firebase for facilitating the communication among indonesian police force members

Abstract

Humans are social being that need to communicate regularly. One of the common methods to communicate is to take advantage of the advancement of the digital technology such as chatting application. Nowadays, the communication among police force members, especially in Indonesia is somewhat limited due to the inadequate method of communicating available to them. Therefore, to utilize the current digital technology, it might be necessary to develop a chatting application which has some functions to facilitate the police force members to communicate among themselves and assist their jobs while they are in duty. Such chatting application was developed using Android Studio IDE and Firebase Database. Police force members could use this application to do several things, such as: communicating among the members, imposing warnings, and issuing tickets to the traffic offenders. Furthermore, there is also a Text Recognition API functioned as a license plate number scanner, which is useful for public use. For instance, to check a license plate number before buying a vehicle of interest. This current paper will report and elaborate the development process of our developed application.