Re: Developer Digest, Vol 23, Issue 5

[Aziz <azizsaleh at gmail dot com>]

Salam alikom,

All I can tell you that its a very easy thing to do. I was 
about to develop
the same type of application, but which requires internet 
connection for
www.IslamPrayerTimes.com.

I 
then came across brother's  Nauman Khan website: www.mobilemolvee.com,
which provides 
what I wanted to do but as a downloadable application.

You can try to 
contact him and he might help you out.

Salam alikom,
Aziz
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Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:18:38 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Abul Kashem <abul_22 at yahoo dot co dot uk>
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> as-salamu 
alaykom,
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> I am an Bsc (Hons) Computing Student. I am in my final 
year and in the
process of starting my final year project. please find 
attached my project
proposal.
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> i have no idea how to start 
this project, i am looking at algorhrythams
but proven unsuccessful finding 
information.
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> I would appriciate any help you could provide to 
assist with my project.
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> jazakallah.
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> Project Proposal
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Nearly everybody has a mobile phone!
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Introduction
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> My project proposal for the final 
year project is the investigation into
and production of a "prayer and 
fasting time Information Application"
program, which the user will be able to 
view and set alarms to notify them
of payer time as well as time for breaking 
fast. The program will be created
for the use on mobile 
phones.
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> Scope
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The project is potentially quite a large piece of work, and it is
difficult 
to state categorically what will be feasible within the limited
time period 
available to me. Rather than define absolutely what my
"deliverables" are, I 
propose to produce a prioritised list of deliverables,
and I will attempt to 
produce what is possible in the time frame of the
third year project. I hope 
to treat this project, as merely the first part
of a piece of work that will, 
I believe, be genuinely useful for our day to
day life and in a wide range of 
situations.
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> The 
Problem
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> One of the challenges Muslims face 
living in the west is the inability to
hear the Azan (calling to pray) from 
the mosque very loud so we know when to
pray. This is considered noise 
pollution. Praying five times a day, it is
very hard to know when exactly to 
pray as the prayer time varies everyday.
In my personal opinion being a 
Muslim myself there is desperate need for
this innovation and the demand for 
this is also very high.
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> The testing 
product
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> My product covers the needs of prayer 
and fasting timetable. It will be
designed especially for mobile phones; this 
is because everyone now has a
mobile phone also there is demand for this 
innovation. My product will be
designed as an application which can be 
uploaded on a mobile phone; this
product will function in a similar way as a 
Calender would on Mobile Phones.
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> It will be 
designed so that when the user can select the present and a
future date to 
view the prayer times and also activate an alarm for desired
prayer time or 
all of the daily five prayers. It will also have a function
for the month of 
Ramadan (opening and closing fast), which will calculate it
for each year as 
it follows the lunar calendar.
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> Distinctive 
features of the proposed product!
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>    It can be 
accessed at all time.
>    No internet connection needed.
>    No 
subscription needed.
>    No need to update every year.
>    Carry 
it with you at all time!
>    No hassle.
>    Application saved on 
the phone memory.
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> The 
Deliverables
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> In the long term, I would like to 
produce a comprehensive solution to the
problem of being aware of the exact 
time to pray, but in the meantime
herewith is a list of various deliverables, 
with their priorities. The
minimum set of deliverables should incorporate 
priorities 1 to 5, but I hope
to achieve everything else on the list (and any 
thing else revealed in the
course of the project) in due 
course.
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Priority
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> Deliverables
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> Comments
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1
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> A comprehensive piece of research on the appropriate 
technologies of java,
dot net etc programming and mobile phone 
software.
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> Also research into the calculations of prayer times 
and lunar calendar.
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> I expect to produce the majority of this 
research in time for the interim
report.
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> 2
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> A 
study into people's needs and desires for this kind of 
technology
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> I hope to produce a study by interviewing a range of 
potential users in
time for the interim report, and will also carry out a 
thorough literature
search.
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> 3
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> A prototype 
phone based application.
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> 4
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Testing
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> 5
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> An actual 
product
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> Initial research into such devices by the interim 
report, further research
at a later date.
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