Desenvolvimento de um protótipo de notificação para o portal do aluno da UFSM

Abstract

The growing popularity of mobile devices is causing a growing demand on the development of applications that ease access to remote service providers. Traditionally, the communication is made via HTTP protocol, sockets or web services. In the information providing context we have the Student Portal of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), which offers information such as test assessment, attendance, timetable, access to the university restaurant balance, among other features. However, the Portal access requires user authentication every time, this authentication is done with the login and password of the student. We present a mobile application that allows access to the Portal's information, creating a notification system. There are two main features: the first regards student assessment and feedback when they are available on the Portal. The second feature regards query about the current balance on the university restaurant. The application runs on Android devices and was developed in Java, using Eclipse IDE, as well as the Android SDK tools. Finally, the validation was carried out tests to verify the usability of the application.