Design and Development of an E-Petition Mobile Application

Petition, which is the most common means for parliaments to act on behalf of citizens, is characterized by the high cost of manually collecting and verifying the signatures of petitioners and supporters, as well as covering physical distances to deliver the petition. This project improves on the previous e-petition applications developed for traditional web-based platforms by using a mobile platform in an android environment. The application was implemented by using Java programing language, and android studio (3.4 version), and Google Firebase as the database. XML was employed to give a better user interface design with ease, and Photoshop to fine-tune the background picture. The significance of this project is for the petition to be done from anywhere within a stipulated geographical space, to encourage real time response to petitions and to enhance the petitioning process. In conclusion, this work is designed to increase citizens’ level of participation in governance and to reduce the dearth of mediums which the public can use to participate in government activities. This study improves on previous e-petition applications developed for traditional web-based platforms by using a mobile platform in an android environment.