International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology (IJCST) – Volume 11 Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2023 ISSN: 2347-8578 www.ijcstjournal.org Page 11 An Android Application for Tracking Students using GPS Technology A.F.Elgamal [1] , W.K.ElSaid [1] , Walaa.M.Hassan [2] [1] Computer Teacher Preparation, Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University [1] Computer Teacher Preparation, Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University [2] Education Technology, Faculty of Specific Education, Kafr-El-sheikh University ABSTRACT Children’s safety represents one of the major concerns for families and societies because children need to be tended to all the time during their daily life activities, particularly when they leave home to attend school, go to the club for sports or go out for entertainment. In modern life, most parents have many daily duties and burdens because they have to go to their jobs and tend to their professional responsibilities and at the same time, they have to take care of their children and monitor them in all their life activities. Primarily, parents should monitor their children’s presence and activities to avoid their exposure to dangers and to protect them from many unsafe situations. Moreover, the news of children kidnapping makes parents more concerned about their children’s safety and improving children supervision without limiting their movement and their desire to explore their environment. This gave rise to the need for designing a system for tracking the location and activity of children with the help of modern technology, through using their smartphones with all embedded developed technologies like GPS, cameras, microphones and sensors. Keywords: - Student Tracking, GPS, Smartphone Sensors. I. INTRODUCTION Information technology has caused the world to change quickly, and people are busy with their work and businesses, doing their best to achieve welfare for themselves and their families. Most parents spend more time at work, in their businesses, and in their professions than ever, and are always concerned about their children’s welfare and safety. Most parents seek to follow and monitor their children’s whereabouts and activities while they are away from them and from any place whatsoever. However, they cannot do this at the physical level because children go to different places and do various activities [1]. For example, parents continually worry for their children while they attend school until they are back home because of the people’s growing awareness of the lack of public safety in various cities and the rise in the number of crimes against children. This gave rise to the idea of devising a system to enable parents to track their children’s whereabouts and alert them by sending them a notification if their children leave the boundaries set for them [2]. The proposed tracking system is based on following moving subjects and providing a real-time chronology of position data for tracking analysis, utilizing a smartphone as the best instrument for developing such a system [3]. Recently, the number of smartphone users has exploded in the last decade because of the widespread perception that smartphones, which have become crammed with various applications, are indispensable for modern life. However, it is controversial whether it is appropriate to allow children to own smartphones despite the high percentage of children and teenagers who own smartphones in all countries [4]. In today’s world, our life has undergone a significant transformation because of smartphones, which have made people constantly reachable and provided access to new forms of communication including video calls and messages. Even youngsters and teenagers consider smartphones to be an essential part of their life. There is considerable debate regarding whether it is practical or necessary to allow youngsters to own a smartphone with internet access because it is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it enables parents to reach and contact youngsters at all times, so parents believe it to be very helpful and indispensable [5]. II. STUDY BACKGROUND Due to the continuous development of smartphone technologies, tremendous ideas were developed to utilize every resource and technology embedded in smartphones. In our proposed application, we used several tools and built-in technologies to achieve the best performance of the proposed system in tracking and monitoring students. The following section provides a description of such tools and technologies. II.1- ANDROID PLATFORM Android is one of the most widely used and most popular operating systems worldwide. The Android operating system has been developed by Google and it is based on the Linux kernel. Android is on the rise because every year, millions of new users switch to Android platforms. The kernel, libraries, application framework, and applications are the four RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS