| Scope and Method of Study: Thanks to the increasing use of mobile devices, the mobile phone applications area is quickly developing as the popularity and demand for new features. This study has the goals to explore the integration between the android platform using sensors with social networks. Architecture to develop this type of application is also proposed. Within the document a literature review is provided and is composed of four parts: the first part includes the necessary concepts to program Android applications with best practices, taking in consideration its life cycle, the second part discusses the mobile social computing concepts and challenges, and the last part shows the main concepts and challenges in cyber-physical systems. Thereafter, a methodology and architecture is proposed in chapter 3. The chapter 4 includes two case scenarios and its implementation which has android application and social network.;Findings and Conclusions: The study shows the challenges related to develop mobile cyber-physical social network with android. A demo in Android was developed and integrated it to other frameworks to demonstrate its use. One of the most important challenges was find a good communication method for the social network and an appropriate way to locate individuals. Haversine formula was used to calculate the distance in our demo. However, it is necessary to explore more methods that are more exact in calculate the distance between geographical points. Also, privacy and legal issues are necessary to be addressed for mobile cyber-physical social networks in the future. |
