Mobile phone application : recording on going phone conversations in mobile phones

Abstract

Previously, call recording applications were common in mobile operating system such as Symbian. As technology advances rapidly, Symbian is slowly being phased out. Currently, modern mobile operating system starts to take the place of Symbian. The most commonly used mobile operating systems currently are Apple iOS and Google Android.

However, there are currently limited applications on mobile phones using modern operating system such as iOS and Android that record phone conversation. Having an application that is able to record phone conversation will be useful in many ways. Firstly, these recorded conversations are useful in verification and forensic analysis which can be used in court. Secondly, it can also be used by journalist to record their phone interview with the other party. Thirdly, it can be used in businesses whereby the seller cannot deny something that has been agreed upon. Fourthly, it can also be used as evidence against any sort of harassment on the phone and lastly, during instances when you do not have a pen and your friend is telling you the direction on where to go or the phone number that you should call.

An application that record voice calls for Android is proposed. Android programming was intensively studied to allow the author to program for Android phones. Then, research work was done on how to program the application and at what point does the application start to enable the user to record effectively. The application named Call Recorder was developed and it worked as desired.

The report illustrates some literature review of Android, how the application works and also some ways to improve on the application.