Design and development of a social networking mobile application on Smartphones

近年来，全球范围内的移动设备市场呈爆炸式增长。位于加拿大新斯科舍省（Nova Scotia）的Progeny Software Inc.在过去15年里一直致力于开发和营销桌面软件产品，最近开始进军移动应用开发领域。该公司正在探索的一个利基领域是在不同的智能手机平台上开发一款新颖的社交网络移动应用程序。该项目的主要目标是调查，设计和原型一个新颖的社交网络移动应用程序的Android平台。该应用程序是由该公司创新的，目标用户是女性青少年。该应用程序涉及移动平台上人脸识别软件的集成和智能手机上触摸屏灵敏度检测的研究。该公司已经在iPhone平台上成功开发了这款应用的基本版本。本建议的目标如下：

There has been an explosive growth in the mobile device market on a global scale in recent years. Progeny Software Inc., a Nova Scotia based company, which has been building and marketing desktop software products for the past 15 years, has recently made its foray into mobile app development. One of the niche areas that the company is exploring is the evelopment of a novel social networking mobile application on different smartphone platforms. The primary objective of this project is to investigate, design and prototype a novel social networking mobile app for Android platforms. The application, which has been innovated by the company, is targeted towards the female teen demographics. The application involves the integration of face recognition software on mobile platforms and the investigation of touch screen sensitivity detection on smartphones. The company has successfully developed a basic version of the app on iPhone platforms. The goals of this proposal are the following: