International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)

Volume 139 – No.10, April 2016

Advocate Notepad: An Android Application

Sonal Gupta Aayushi Gupta Aayush Mittal
Assistant Professor Student Student
ABES Engineering College ABES Engineering College ABES Engineering College
Ghaziabad (UP), India Ghaziabad (UP), India Ghaziabad (UP), India

ABSTRACT unnecessary Money to the traffic police as bribe; but the

Smartphones are steadily gaining popularitywith an estimated person’s accurate knowledge or availability to these laws
1.6 billion mobile device users by 2013.With the advancement using this app can help him to pay or take exact decision as
of technology, creation of new android based application per the Law and not what is wrong. Usually a common man
plays an important role in making common man life easy and has to pay certain amount to the Lawyer to whom he may
smart.A number of Android applications are developing in the concern for small issues like Dowry, environmental issues,
market by a rapid rate. Managing common man task in family issues etc. In such situation, the availability of legal
various fields like entertainment, lifestyle, business, social, informationas first-aid will help the common man in
games etc. with these applications is today’s demand. protecting his fundamental rights.
Motivated with this, a free Android app named Advocate Another aspect of Legal World relates with Advocates as they
Notepad is proposed and developed in this paper for are an important part of it. Usually advocate hire attendant for
advocates to help them in maintaining the records of the cases maintaining their regular case details and past history, but
on day to day basis with the details of the nature of the maintaining a manual diary may not be as effective with
proceedings conducted on a particular day. Common man can today’s advance technologies.Thus, incorporation of
use this App to know and learn about basic Laws that help technology such as android app in this field can be of great
common people to get rid of being exploited by one way or use to advocate as well as common men.It will also be more
another.This app helps user in knowing basic Laws like air secure and speedy.
pollution, water pollution, waste management, chemical
safety, forest resources under environment law. Time to time Therefore, an android application is proposed in this paper to
Reminders to advocates about their cases is an additional incorporate technology in the field of Law for advocates and
feature incorporated in the app. common man. This android application will play a key role in
providing a simple, systematic and speedier life to the
Keywords advocates. This will help the advocates in raising their
Android SDK, Android Application, Modules standards of working and in providing a better service to their
clients while saving their time and resources.The proposed
1. INTRODUCTION app will provide all information regarding day-to-day cases,
OnSeptember 23 2001, Google developed a mobile operating client’s personal information, completed and ongoing cases,
system called Android. An Android app is a software basic Laws and Rights at their fingertips anytime, anywhere.
application running on the Android platform..Android Searching, notifications, setting reminder are other features
Applications are written primarily in java programming that will enhance the importance of this app for advocates.
language using the Android Software development kit (SDK) The objective of the app also focus in resolving the problem
which includes a comprehensive set of development tools. By of violation and exploitation of common man fundamental
July 2013, the Google Play store consists over one million rights by providing them the basic knowledge of Laws and
Android applications published, and over 50 billion Rights such as penalties or punishments associated with
applications downloaded worldwide. With the passage of exploitation of rules and regulations.
time, various versions of android like Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice
Cream Sandwich, JellyBean, KitKat, Lollipop and the latest The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section II, we
one is Lollipop MR 1 are introduced in the market with new will present the study of related work done regarding the
one overcoming the bugs and shortcomings of previous incorporation of technology in the field of Law.In Section III,
version. . There were about 67 million smartphones in India in we propose the design of the proposed app. In Section IV, we
2013 out of which, nearly 90% are android based.Thus the discuss the implementation details regarding the development
knowledge of “legal education” via an Android application of app.In Section V, we present the results of the developed
will help a lot to solve the general problems as it is a widely app. In Section VI, we conclude the paper.
used technology at present. Law is a system of rules that helps
to manage politics, economics and society in a number of 2. RELATED WORK
ways. Our constitution has provided certain fundamental In this section, we present the existing websites and android
Rights for every citizen as well as for every person and applications that aim to fulfill the same criteria as ours but are
unawareness of these fundamental rights result to their lacking behind due to some reasons. Some of them are
violation. Thus Basic and fundamental knowledge is a must discussed below.
for these common people so that they may not get exploited
and their knowledge of the laws helps them to take benefit of
2.1 Manual Diary
The concept of maintaining a Manual Diaryis oneof the
their rights.
earliest methodsfor storageand retrieval ata later date by the
Thus basic knowledge of certain laws and regulations is must advocates and is now replaced by other methods due to the
for a person even though it does not relate to legal field. Let’s various shortcomings like absence of alert system, lack of
take an example: Some situation may arise like breaking privacy, difficulty in updation, wastage of time and paper,
traffic rule in hurry or by mistake that can result you to pay limited flexibility, high maintainance etc.

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2.2 Web-based Applications and client details as well as lack behind in keeping updated
These applications uses a website as an interface between user Laws and Rights [7].
and application that allow user to access anytime, anywhere According to the market survey, the above mentioned are
using browser and internet facility.Some of these are some of the web-based and android based tools developed for
discussed below advocates, each having pons andcons that make their usage
limited and inappropriate. To overcome the shortcomings of
2.2.1 Thevakeel.com these existing work and providing advocates much more ease,
This site is used to maintain the details to be managed by we developed an Android Application which will be available
Advocates about their different Cases, Detail of their Clients, at Google Play Store Free of cost and also provides high
Search various Cases via various ways etc.The major con of Quality Service to the Advocates as well as easy
this site is its non-availability on Smart-phones, hosting cost, understandability to the Common man.
Large overhead to manage bulk of data, portability and high
maintainance, internet connection. As Android App can 3. PROPOSED DESIGN
provide these facilities with more without Laptop or PC An Android app named ADVOCATE NOTEPAD is
usage, it will be better to port such applications on developed and presented in this paper for advocates to help
smartphones [1]. them in maintaining the records of the cases on day to day
basis with the details of the nature of the proceedings
2.2.2 Indian Kanoon conducted on a particular day. The life of an Advocate
It is aSearch Engine for different Rights and Law by various revolves and guided by his/her Diary of cases and is virtually
keywords like acts related to Women, Property Act, Acts handicapped without it. Using this app, they can have all the
defining traffic rules, Acts against Exploitation of Children, information they need about all the cases of the clients, at
Domestic Violence Act etc.But the understanding of various their fingertips, which they can use anytime of the day or
sections and their further subdivision may be difficult for night and at any place. This app helps them to manage and co-
ordinate their cases, which will enhance their productivity and
common people.So a direct source of information for common
earning. Time to time Reminders to advocates about their
Laws and rights seems better [2]. cases is an additional feature incorporated in the app.
2.2.3 Advocate-Diary The proposed app is represented with the help of an use case
This tool is designed to provide an electronic assistant to the diagram as shown in Fig.1 that represents advocate and user
advocates to manage their case and client’s information, to that can use the app and access its features at their ease.The
maintain their schedule and fees details etc. app will be available at google play store free of cost.Every
The availability of all case details at a place enhance this person who installed the app needs to sign-in himself at first
website, but the major con is its trial period of 15 day step.Once sign-in, the advocate will have access to the app
onlyafter whichcharges are imposed for further usage. Also, it with the entire database maintained personally on his
does not provide features like notifications, reminder, phone.Different features are available to the Advocate like
information regarding laws and rights[3]. add a case, view all cases, Search a case (by a keyword),
Access to Laws and Rights, get notification for today’s case
2.3Android Applications etc.
Since the usage of smart phones is more common than
computers today and they offer many features in a portable
and simpler way,Android applications are much in
trend.Some of the android based applications for advocates
are given below:

2.3.1Advocate Diary Case Mgt.Free

This app incorporate certain featres like schedule reminder on
email either weekly or monthly, manage cases, offline
application functionality, multiple website support etc. This
android app involves Pro version charges- 499/- for One year
and includes services like database collection. The cost
charged for the app to get installed is a major drawback of it
along with the non-availability of rights information for
common man[4].

2.3.2 Advocates’ Diary

This android application was Created in July 23,2012 for the
advocates to alter their manual diary by providing fast and
simple way for its maintainance.Being one of the earlier
android app for the use of advocates, the maintain drawback
of it is its installation charges of Rs.300 per year [5].

2.3.3 The Advocate

This app gives us access to up-to-date local news of various
fields like Law, sports, entertainment etc. This app maintains
Fig 1: Use Case diagram
the up-to-the-minute local news coverage, in-depth coverage
of SU, LSU, and Saints etc. but the major drawback of this
app is that it does not allow advocates to maintain their case

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The project aims to present an organized, secure, feasible and

efficient way of maintaining diary of lawyer digitally. The
app will ease the maintenance of case records and all related
information with the motive of transforming the present day
paper-work based storage to full-fledged digital storage
system. The system will be providing seamless applications
capable of handling large-scale records.

4. MODULAR DIVISION OF
APPLICATION
The project is basically divided into following modules:
Registration Module, Add A Case Module, All Cases Module,
Search A Case Module, Today’s Case Module, Laws Module,
Rights Module, Admin Portal Module, Settings Module. This
section describes the basic functioning idea of each module.
Registration- A new user can register by filling registration
form by filling its email-id and phone number a two
mandatory fields that creates an account on Advocate Notepad
to access its features.
Add a Case Module- An advocate can add new case details
in the app such as Name of Client, Mobile No. , Email,
Address, Case Name, Case Details, Case Category, Date.
All Cases Module- The all cases module enables advocate to Fig 2: Sequence Diagram
look onto his various cases and its history. It provide all the
cases added by each advocate. 5. RESULTS
Search a Case Module- An advocate can use this module to To evaluate the functioning of each mentioned module,the
search and get entire details for the case which have been results of each working module is snapped and shown from
added by him in the past, so its time get saved. fig.3 to fig. 7isshown as:

Today’s Case- This module enables its advocate to have a

look onto the cases which are going to take place today and
alsogets a notification as a reminder to him.
Laws and right- This module provides information about the
laws made in the constitution of India. The bad luck is people
of India are not aware of Indian laws and rights available to
them and are thus bribed, looted at several places. This app
tries to ease this task by making available general basic law
and rights category wise.
Admin Portal Module- This module gives rights to the
administrator of the system to log in and can add new features
to the app as well as update the laws and rights module.
Fig,2 shows the interaction of the android app interface i.e the
client side with the database and server with the help of
sequence diagram. The vertical line indicates the objects and
horizontal line indicates the message exchange to access the
data and interaction between the client and server. Fig 3: Application Icon Fig 4: Loading Page

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Fig 11: Law Details Fig 12: Various Rights

Fig 5: Various Modules Fig 6: All Case Details

Fig13: Today’s Notification Fig 14: Setting Module

Fig 7: Case Details Fig 8: Searching a Case

Fig 15: Notification Fig 16: Contact Us

We believe the proposed application not only facilitates
advocates in maintaining their day-to-day records but also
aims at providing them a simple, speedier and systematic life.
Even though it can also help the advocates and common
people to gain the knowledge of various rights, Laws etc
much quickly and in a simple way. In this aspect, it is
Fig 9: Add a Case Fig 10: Today’s Case important to point out that adopting this application is more
beneficial for advocates than any other means of maintaining
their records safely.Hence, our goal of developing an android
application for advocates and common people is a useful tool
for them.

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6. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK 7. REFERENCES

We would appreciate further discussions and implementations [1] Thevakeel.com[Online]Available
in the project in the future, as a study must never stop. We FTP:http://www.thevakeel.com
have done much to make the application work good and look
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