INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH VOLUME 9, ISSUE 02, FEBRUARY 2020 ISSN 2277-8616 2682 IJSTR©2020 www.ijstr.org Feasibility Study Of Android Application In Architectural Education Vandana, Dr. Preeti Gupta, Dr. Anil Kumar, Ar. Chetan Verma Abstract: Mobile devices are increasing day by day because of its portable features and effective applications. Nowadays not only individuals but entrepreneurs also depend on portable devices for their small and big assignments. However, rapid use of mobile technology increasing feasibility of mobile users and programmers. In development of mobile application, developers aiming to build their application with suitable platform which can access by any devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops and computers. Android is one of the best, popular and open source platform which provides ready-made, customizable and high-tech features for users. Almost in every sector android applications are useful like health care, e- commerce, banking and education. Million mobile educational applications are available on internet these days. This study highlights what is android application, architectural education and how android application is feasible in educational and architectural education sector. To improvise the productivity and standards of learning architectural education, different methods can include in android application. After analysis of the present situation of architectural education this study analyze how android technology can provide single online platform to access multiple features simultaneously. Index Terms: Android, Android Application, Educational Application, Architectural Education, Architectural Application. ——————————  —————————— 1. INTRODUCTION Android is one of the most useful and powerful operating systems these days because of its supporting feature. In several aspects smartphones considered as an important innovation. For distributing new knowledge, android technology as a tool is remarkable and problem-solving. Due to technological inventions, the android operating system has undergone great changes and it is running on countless models of smartphones, Pcs, Tablets, as well as many other devices [1]. With the availability of smartphone devices and advancement in mobile technology developers are designing interactive and effective android apps (applications) which can be used for learning and teaching architecture through single platform [2]. The aim of this research focus on android app based architectural design in architectural education and define how an android app feasible in architecture education by providing various facilities for architects and architectural students/aspirants including find registered architects through their uploaded profile, infrastructure and courses detail which will be helpful for architectural aspirants, best architectural firms for job/training and institutions for further education, reading/downloading architectural Ebook and online practice test portal for architectural aspirants. Android apps has begun to displace traditional architectural design and learning technologies and become more advanced in education sector due to its innovative and efficient technologies like virtual reality (VR) and augmented Reality (AR). In architecture education for visualization of three dimensional (3D) model, students require this technology on mobile devices to compare their 3D models with real world objects. Image architecture, virtual scene and digital simulation among other application are the example of digital technologies that have been involved in the education process of architectural education to replace traditional education tools which was mainly based on two dimensional (2D) sketches on physical 3D models. Integration of complete digital teaching like computer aided drafting (CAD), modeling, enumerating became the main subject in architectural education. Over the past decades, mobile technologies are providing more effective educational methods for classrooms and outdoor learning. The general objective of this study is to enhance productivity and standards of architectural education through android application. The rest of the paper further structured as follows: Section II provides an overview of android. Section III presents the structural components of android application. Section IV outlines the use of android application in education sector. Section V describes about architectural education. Section VI highlights the use and feasibility study of android application in architectural education. Section VII discusses the result analysis and finally the paper is concluded in Section VIII. 2 OVERVIEW OF ANDROID Android is a popular, comprehensive (complete software stack) open source platform and Linux based operating system for mobile devices. It is powerful operating system (OS) which was developed by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), led by Google, and primarily designed for touch screen mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones. These days android is one of the most sought-after and widely used mobile operating system because of its features such as interactive user interface (UI), connectivity, multi-touch, multi- tasking storage, media support, Web browser, messaging, multi-language, GCM, resizable widgets, android beam and wi-fi direct. Android OS has been released in number of versions with alphabetical order names including Android Astro (1.0), Bender (1.1), Cupcake (1.5), Donut (1.6), Eclair (2.0), Froyo (2.2.x), Gingerbread (2.3.x), Honeycomb (3.0), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x), Jelly Bean (4.x), KitKat (4.4), Lolipop (5.0), Marshmallow (6.0), Nogut (7.0), Oreo (8.0), Pie (9) and Q (10) latest released version of android. As can be seen in Fig. 1 which shows seven main reasons why android is so much popular. Nowadays, number of architectural apps are available on android and helpful for architecture students to work smarter instead of harder. ————————————————  Vandana is research scholar in Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, PH- +91-9911274978. E-mail: saivandana4@gmail.com  Dr. Preeti Gupta is currently working as an associate professor in Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan India, PH- +91-9928369701. E- mail: pgupta@jpr.amity.edu  Dr. Anil Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor in Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia, PH- +91-9466350772. E- mail: anilbest2005@gmail.com  Ar. Chetan Verma is currently working as an Lecturer in Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia, and research scholar in Amity University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India PH- +91-8588840003. E-mail: ar.chetanverma@gmail.com