Requirements analysis of android application using activity theory: A case study

Over the past few years, we can see the enormous increase of the use of smart phones that are based on android platform. Due to that reason, the mobile application development based on android has boosted the developers' interest. Having countless android application on the market is not an assurance of having users' satisfaction. Some of them do not reach users' expectations due to lack of research on dealing with android-based application requirements. With the fast growing of smart phones and their applications, the needs for better application to be produced are needed. Currently there is no specific research on analyzing the requirements for android applications. This paper proposes a new strategy that uses an activity theory to analyze the requirements of android application. It is then discusses a case study of a Muslim android application and presents the results of its requirements analysis using activity theory. The result of this study shows activity theory as an alternative requirement analysis approach to mobile application development that is based on android operating system.