Designing an Android-Based “Digital Library Batik Tegal” Application

Abstract

Inventory and documentation efforts as an effort to protect and preserve craft products, to provide an informative function for batik industry players, students, tourists, and the wider community can be done with a digital library. This research was conducted to design an android-based application which displays information about Tegal batik motifs in the android display of the application related to the initial display (home), a brief history of Tegal Regency, maps of Tegal Regency, the development of Tegal Regency typical batik, 400 kinds of motifs Tegal batik with its philosophical meaning, and the distribution of batik business actors in Tegal Regency and equipped with an audio explanation of the philosophical meaning of batik. The Tegal Batik Digital Library application was developed using the Flutter framework with the Dart programming language. In this study we used the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method with a Waterfall method. This research produces an android application called “Digital Library Batik Tegal” which can be used by batik industry players, vocational students, and the general public. Application testing conducted by media experts showed good results, where in Black Box testing all features ran as they should.