NOOR eMashaf Application for Android-based Tablets: Concept and Design

This paper presents the basic concepts and design of NOOR eMashaf application for Android-based tablets. It has been designed to include a range of features to accommodate a large audience of Quran readers and reciters, as well as dedicated features for people with disabilities. In terms of content, eMashaf contains Quran text and images, Tafsir, Ahkam, Qira'at, and Translations. The content being displayed in a form of text, images and audio. Several tools have been developed as well to deal with user friendly Mashaf pages and ayat navigation, reciters audio navigation, search engine of Quran and Tafsir, and application settings with download features of relevant content from a centralized dedicated Cloud storage. Furthermore, eMashaf provides advanced features for people with special need. It will help this category of disadvantaged individuals and give them the opportunity to efficiently use the technology available to learn Quran and proper use of most features of NOOR eMashaf application. The advanced features consist of voice and motion controlled interaction with eMashaf for easy access and navigation through the main audio, images and text content and materials. In this paper the main concepts of NOOR eMashaf prototype development with some results so far are presented, and future work is discussed.