GIS and Mapping Mobile Application for Local Food Finder in Shah Alam, Selangor

Food tourism is one of the popular sectors that connecting people around the world. Nowadays, due to the emerging technology era, people tend to rely on using their smartphones as a guide to do something or go somewhere. Specifically, since existing Selangor tourism websites are limited choices in terms of useful information and interesting interfaces, this application is intended to be more accessible to the users in the future. The main aim of this study is to design and develop GIS mobile application on Food Finder in Shah Alam. This app can guide users to find the best rating of variety restaurant in Shah Alam. Three main objectives are set in the study are to conduct an assessment of user requirement analysis for proposed mobile apps, to design and develop the proposed application based on Geographical Information System (GIS) and Android system, to evaluate the application performance according to public respondents. By considering the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) framework, the application is developed by involving the preliminary study, need assessment, system design and development, and system testing. Android Studio which using a Java as a language and integration of Firebase as a cloud-based server is used to develop this application. The outcome result is the prototype of food finder apps where this app can practically relevant in the searching restaurant in Shah Alam by viewing it information and users can go to any best restaurant.