An Interactive Android Mobile Application for Children: Hidup Cara Rasulullah

Information and communication technology has enable education sector to evolve throughout the years. Society requires more adaptable and adjustable ways of to changes. Various web technologies also have enable to improve learning activities due to the high usability and availability. As trends of using portable devices are growing rapidly, the possibility to exploit them for the purpose of learning is immense. Malaysia is inhibited with 61.3% of Muslims. Therefore, informal learning in Islamic context for children is a vital part in any Muslim child development. However, the platform for children to obtain informal learning in Islamic Context is rarely seen. As such, this project will develop a mobile application for android that enables children at the age of four to six years old as well as their parents to learn about Islamic Hadiths in an interactive and engaging manner. Exploratory study is conducted to evaluate the process of learning Islamic contents for children, which will be the basic user requirements for the mobile application. Survey results shown the majority of Muslim parents provide their children with Islamic education at home through children‟s books, although the parents are in possession of a mobile device or tablet and have downloaded Islamic applications. However, the participants were not providing their children with Hadiths learning. The majority of parents believe that teaching their children about Dua supplication and remembrance is more essential rather than Hadiths. However, teachers at preschool include animated movies for children to learn about Hadiths. Providing children with animations that contain proper story line will allow children to easily understand and remember the concept and how to supplicate Hadiths into daily lives. Therefore, this project will develop an interactive mobile application called “Hidup cara Rasulullah” to provide children a better understanding in the concept of Hadiths in daily lives.