Hammer down — an online auction application

An auction is a method of buying and selling goods or services by presenting them for a bid, accepting the bids, and then selling the items to the highest bidder. Online auctions are among the upcoming e-business applications. These auctions have a big impact on trading in the B2B (business to business), as well as in the B2C (business to consumer) and C2C (consumer to consumer) areas. Recently the Android application development along with web services has brought many changes in the mobile application development field. Keeping the above in mind, an Android based mobile application to implement online auctions to buy and sells products has been designed. Our application provides a solution for the buyers and sellers from different geographical locations to come together on a single platform and to host and participate in auctions at ease. The English auction being the most popular auction, our application deals with it as well as other auction like the Dutch auction. Our android application for mobile phones requires General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Wi-Fi technology to operate[2][3][4].