An Android Application Studhelper for Engineering Students Ishani Mukherjee 1 , Aman Bansal 2 , Mokshada Patra 3 , Rahul Pal 4 , Md.Khaja Mohiddin 5 UG Scholars 1,2,3,4 , Senior Assistant Professor 5 Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India ishani.mukherjee21@gmail.com, mnbansal69@gmail.com, mpatra126@gmail.com, rprahulpal31@gmail.com khwaja7388@gmail.com Abstract—The paper has been presented with a system that is created on the android platform targeting the students studying in an engineering institute. The application is created for effortless day to day official work in an institute. Students will be served with the benefits like compilation of branch wise question papers, general aptitude questions, video lectures, newspapers, with some interesting features like parent-teacher portal, feedback system and ask your queries block. The application is designed using core java coding, layout is fabricated with xml extension, complete creation is done on android studio. Login authentication is developed via Firebase Auth, newspapers have been linked through their URL, video lectures are engrossed with API and a separate website is created for parent-teacher interaction. Based on the above mentioned ideology, We are fabricating an application using android design studio kit which is majorly concerned for the effortless access of all the essentials required in an institute. Index Terms—Firebase Auth, xml, URL, API I. I NTRODUCTION World is changing its pace at regular front, so as the technologies. Everyday, we are intoduced with some or the other fresh development in the field of science and technology. Keeping a constant look over this changing world is a task in itself, but the services it bring us worth just like Mobile phones. Mobile phones have been evolved with stupendous operating systems throughout. One of the amazing operating system is Android. Android has been a fast developing oper- ating system which has over taken other operating systems. The catchy feature of android is its versatility of several creations. It allows to develop simplest form of the application. The proposed application is one of the easiest approached system which is emphasised on the trouble-free piece of work engaged at institute on daily basis. Perfect use of digitalization trend can be witnessed through this application. Comfort has been the major concern while creation of this application. Accessing important documents, papers, video lectures and ofcourse newspapers just through a click is really very less tiring. Further sections will be focussed on the methodology and description of the technologies used while making this application. II. LITERATURE REVIEW In this [1] paper,class and staff Locator application has been developed via capstone. The Class And Staff Locator Application is used to locate classrooms and allocate staffs as per mentioned in their schedule. GPS (Global Positioning System) and Google Maps have been joined to this app, which plays the role of locating and tracking to reach desired destination. Location manager has been used for enabling the GPS system in java coding section which uses longitude and latitude of the device and hence enabling users to find current location of this application, map library has been used to convert longitude and latitude values into address of streets. Some Location based services intrudes Maps, MapActivity (a Location based API which is used to show location on the map). Map View has been used to display a view of map. MapActivity is used for controlling MapView. Location based API is used to locate user’s current position and display that location on map and Google maps has been linked using Fragment Activity in coding section. In this [2] paper, the development of a real-time response system has been done to intensify student’s involvement in a class by means of keeping track of the attendance and participation of students. The lecturer keeps track of every student’s attendance. This helps to enhance the participation of students and improves their attendance record. The access card feature has been developed and card is provided to every student and access is granted to get the teaching materials provided by the teachers. This is basically for the shy students those who are not very frank to the atmosphere. This way, teachers keeps a note of the progress of the whole class. In this [3] paper, a test-based assessment system has been proposed. Students can take tests or can review their past tests on mobile devices, which reduces the hefty task of marking much number of test papers. Database of the proposed system consists of basic level tests for junior high school students in Taiwan. Teachers are having the benefit of composing digital test sheet by selecting questions from the given database. Teachers are also able to design their own questions. After the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), Vol. 16, No. 4, April 2018 184 https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ ISSN 1947-5500