Automatic Qibla For Windows Phone 8 Application

Nadirah, Sefian (2015) Automatic Qibla For Windows Phone 8 Application. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Qibla is the direction that should be faced when a Muslim prays. It is fixed as the direction of Ka’abah in Makkah. In other words, all Muslims pray in the same direction facing Ka’abah regardless where they are. The more important thing is, prayer is an obligatory for each Muslim as it is the second of the Five Pillars of Islam. Hence, finding the Qiblat accuracy for Muslims to face the correct direction to fulfill their worship of Allah is an important aspect. But, Muslims face difficulty to perform their duty when they are in an area without Qiblat direction indicator especially for travelers. They have to bring a magnetic compass (Qiblat pointer) as reference, which Qiblat direction is correct only when the user in a static state, but give inaccurate result when the user is moving because influence by the gravity. Because of the reason, this project namely Automatic Qibla Direction was developed to determine the Qiblat direction. The direction of Qiblat can be accurately determined automatically by using the latitude and longitude, which the information gets from the Global Positioning System (GPS). This project concentrates on using Windows Phone 8 as a platform to develop the application. Besides, the application is developed using mainly of Visual Studio Professional 2012 which the languages that be used is C# (sharp). An Emulator WVGA 512MB is used to simulate the software before synchronized with the mobile phone Nokia Lumia itself as a device. The system has an option to insert the coordinates or can run automatically without the need to choose current location for determining the Qiblat direction. The data sync with the device to make the whole system to be operated smoothly. It is hoped that this application will give beneficial to all Muslims in performing their duty.

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