Abstract:
Advances in wireless technology increase
the number of mobile device users and give pace
to the rapid development of e-commerce. In this
technology, web services become very popular
and used to communicate over the World Wide
Web’s HyperText Transfer Protocol.In this paper, a
location-based mobile system for Android devices
is proposed. The proposed system allows a user to
find the positioning of pharmacy where has the
drugs, he want to be purchased via a mobile. The
Geo-position of the user’s mobile device provides
to produce location information of this proposed
system. The flow of the proposed system is when
user searches a medicine item, the system
identifies the pharmacy location and searches the
closest local pharmacy using Haversine Formula.
After that, to get the medicine items from each
local pharmacy with in stock information, the
proposed system used Levenshtein Distance. The
Levenshtein Distance provides correct spelling
when the user typed with wrong spelling. Then, the
pharmacy location which the user wants to go and
buy can be viewed in the medicine item detail
page using Google Map. According to the
experimental results, the proposed system can
achieve precise and minimum error in searching
process and provide listing result with the
locations of nearest pharmacy.
