Development of application for obesity-care

The increasing adoption of the mobile device and widely use of application of Android operating system has provided a significant boost to use mobile as a platform for providing healthcare services. As the implement of health application in Android platform is costless and convenient has motivate the increasingly develop of health care application in mobile devices. This paper presents the development of obesity-care application for the Android Platform which can be used effectively in mobile devices. The obesity-care application will obtain the age, gender, weight and height of the user as the input of the system. Next, physical condition (underweight, normal and overweight) and suggestion of calories intake are given to the user to enhance the awareness of public on obesity issue. Further study and efforts is necessary to be undertaken to improve and discover the usefulness and effectiveness of health care application in android system.