HEROIC BATTLE OF SURABAYA APPLICATION BASED ON ANDROID

The limitation of teaching media that using current method such as book, white board, etc. now have a new
problem to get student attention and interest to learn. Meanwhile, within the progress of electronic technology especially
mobile device, enhanced access to any information for everyone. Therefore, in this research we like to integrated mobile
based learning that cover any learner style (visual auditory kinaesthetic) so can improve student attention and interest to
learn. This mobile based learning application will dedicated for learn nation history, especially heroic battle 10 November
1945 in Surabaya. This application will give the information such as battle history, battle historical location information
include location photo gallery and tagging information on a Google Map, video, sound, and quiz, to provide a thorough
understanding of fascinating history from the events surrounding the battle. And to improve learning process for student
and also for more interesting, this application also provides Global Positioning System (GPS) connection to get position of
the user and using it to get direction to historical location using Google Map. This application will provide a list of
locations that have been visited by the user (by GPS detector) that also unlocked a new feature of this application, so user
not only read about the historic sites but also can explore all the historic sites in Surabaya and found fascinating city of
Surabaya. For improvement, we proposed a way to download and update content using zip file technology so user not need
to upgrade entire application to add content. This result from this research will evaluate using questionnaire to 200
respondents with a variety of ages and educational backgrounds, to found the user opinion about this application.