ANDROID APP: PERSONAL FINANCE (PF) Sneha Patil1, Nilima Patil 2, Dr. Shubhangi Bhatambrekar3, Sonal Kulkarni4 Department of Computer Science, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind ,Pune 16, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India snehapatil214@gmail.com , nilimapatil20@gmail.com shubhangi_sb@rediff.com sonalrk7yahoo@.com ABSTRACT— Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments which includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. This paper focuses on the android application developed for management of personal finance. Personal finance is a financial management which an individual or a family unit performs to budget, save and monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events. In this research paper we have done complete analysis of an android application developed by us for personal finance management. This paper refers the aim behind developing this android application. In this paper we have mentioned how we can keep record of all our financial work and generate reports on the basis of date wise and different category wise manner by using this automate personal finance android application. In addition this paper also gives an introduction to the some basic concept of android application development. Keywords: Finance, Insurance, Personal finance, Android application. I. INTRODUCTION Since past decade, the daily work of finance and insurance is done on the basis of manual system in which the daily updates are written on a diary or paper, which can be maintained in the large files or registers. This existing manual system functions in the following manner: A person writes daily work related to insurance and some financial work on paper having predefined format. After completion of this work, the created record has been saved date wise. Reminder will be written on specific needed date. This paper represents android application for personal finance management. The main purpose of developing this android application is to automate all manual activities and to eliminate all the drawbacks that operations of existing system faces. Since existing system was too much time consuming and it puts the heavy work load of updating and maintaining the record manually. It was necessary to develop such an application which can reduce this work burden and save time in rapidly growing world. For developing this application we have used android for coding and database to store the data. II. LITERATURE REVIEW Smart Phones has changed the life of everyone. Along with other features, an App in Smart Phones allows to do almost everything, from playing games to do business. The development of app described in present paper has given a strong understanding of various challenges associated with design and development of apps. The experience has been quite challenging, motivating as well as satisfying [1]. Android as a full, open and free mobile device platform, with its powerful function and good user experience rapidly developed into the most popular mobile operating system [3]. It appears that advice is an important part of the landscape for consumers. If broadening access to advice is a policy goal, more efforts might be needed to increase the availability of low-cost, objective, high-quality advice for households with low educational attainment and low incomes. There is a high correlation between advice seeking and financial literacy. As such, the demand for financial advice may increase if financial literacy levels increase across the population [7]. Insurance product development has changed significantly over time. Insurance premiums and charges are frequently developed based on market positioning. Product designs are becoming more complex. Rates and charges are