Lelong2U – Android based mobile application for online auction / Muhammad Nur Nazrin Abd Rashid

Auction is the act of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid and then selling the item to the highest bidder. This project is about the development of Android based mobile application for online auction and the reason of developing this project is to help the people to auction and bid the items through online platform. A mobile application for online auction can solve several problems such as traditional auction limits the bidder and sellers to a single location. People who live far from the auction location need to travel to attend the auction. Some auction event takes place at an inappropriate time where some bidders cannot join the auction. The objectives of this project are to identify the requirement, to design and to develop the mobile application for online auction. This project used the Android operating system as a platform to develop an Android based mobile native application. The scope of this project is focusing on public user who live in Malaysia that used mobile application for buying and selling goods or services. The users will be able to view the items from catalog and select the item to view the detail of the items then bid the items. The users also can auction their own items. Methodology that had been used for this project is Mobile Application Development Life Cycle (MADLC) model. However, this project covered from identification stage until testing stage only. This project utilized the Android Studio and Java programming language as a tool to develop the mobile application. Firebase services was used to store the data in the database. For future recommendation of Lelong2U mobile application, this project is recommended to include the payment gateway so that the transaction will become more hassle-free. In a nutshell, Lelong2U mobile application able to ease the users to auction the items and make a bid on items through online platform.