Design and implementation of an android application for smart shopping

Abstract

The growth of Android applications around the world is extraordinary. People turn towards technology for making their life more innovative and find solutions to their daily problems. When it comes to shopping, customers find it very difficult to find their products around the supermarket as well as to stand in long billing counter queues. Here we have come up with an android application which can be used in smart shopping carts that solve these dilemmas and provide a better shopping experience. Our smart app consists of two parts which mainly focuses on navigation to the item's location and automatic billing of the products that the user has purchased. The building environment of the app is the open source software called Android Studio software. An RFID reader is used to scan the products. This paper discusses the design and implementation of the app and the results thus obtained.