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Agile: Set of frameworks and practices where solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams

Amazon Web Services (AWS): Cloud computing platform provided by Amazon

Android: Mobile operating system primarily developed by Google

API (Application Programming Interface): A set of functions that allow one program to access data and interact with an external program

Client-server: Computer system where a central server provides data to a number of networked workstations

Cloud Based Database Server: Virtual infrastructure that performs application and information-processing storage

Data Retention: Storage of an organization’s data for compliance or business reasons

Database: Structured data held in a computer

File Server: Controls access to separately stored files

Geofencing: Using GPS to create a virtual geographic boundary

GitHub: Web-based collaboration platform for software developers

GPS (Global Positioning System): Provides users with positioning and navigation information.

Gradle: Build automation tool for multi-language software development

GUI (Graphical User Interface): The set of interactive visual components in software to improve the user experience.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): Standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser

iOS: Mobile operating system developed by Apple

JavaScript: Object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers

Jsoup: Open source Java library used mainly for extracting data from HTML

Kotlin: Object-oriented programming language initially designed for Android and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Linux: Unix-like, open source operating system for computers, servers, mainframes, etc.

MySQL: A freely available open source relational database management system that uses structured query language (SQL)

Twilio: A developer platform for communications