Mobile Device Theft Recovery Applicaiton Platform Independent and Subscription Free

The constant access to information and computing resources brought by mobile devices had changed the nature of computing and communication experience. With more and more cell phones and laptops sold every year, stolen and lost devices have become a rising concern. Several theft recovery applications have been developed targeted specifically for mobile devices, but none for what we came across have combined affordability, deployability, privacy, and ease of use in one single package. We propose a new mobile device theft recovery system, codenamed gTracker, which utilizes Google’s spreadsheet and web album service as our remote storage server. We believe by utilizing Google’s reliable service and Java’s cross-platform nature, our mobile device theft recovery application would be a better alternative to existing theft recovery applications on the market. Keywords-component; mobile device; theft recovering; java; tracking; cell phone; Google; Google Documents; Picasa; Android