Designing Android Gaming News & Information Application Using Java-Based Web Scraping Technique
Evta Indra, Steffanily, Tamarai Dinesh · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2019
It is important for gamers to know the latest news update about video games that they like. Researcher finds that there are many people who likes and want to know more about video game, but services available to find news about video games are so limited, espcially on Android platform. The solution of this problem is to design an Android-based application where the apllication can contain the lastest video game news from reliable sources. Aside from news, other necessary video game information like video game releases, video game reviews, the history, franchises, system requirement and also famous people in the industry. All these information will be pulled using a technique called Web Scraping, which is used for extracting data from websites. This research is expected to make an Android application which contains all information and news in video game world that can provide a complete and detailed information. In the end of the research based on our questionare, it was estimated to satisfy 80% of news consumption needs for gamers.