Smartphone Addiction Screening Application Development Based on Android: A Preeliminary Study

Abstract

The growing and increasing pattern of smartphone use in life from just a communication tool to an entertainment tool makes someone use a smartphone excessively. Excessive use of smartphones if not addressed immediately can have an impact on various disorders ranging from physical, psychological and social disorders. The purpose of this study was to produce an Android-based smartphone addiction screening application and to describe the quality of an Android-based smartphone addiction screening application. This research belongs to the type of Research & Development (R&D). The model used is the Dick & Carey model where the implementation of the developer includes data collection, planning and product development stages. At the data collection stage, 3 (three) were obtained, namely data on family members, smartphone use and complaints experienced and the smartphone addiction scale short version (SAS-SV) questionnaire. In the second stage, namely planning, researchers began to incorporate into an android-based application and develop it to be able to draw conclusions from filling out the questionnaire. Conclusions from filling in include demographic data, physical, psychological and social complaints and dependency categories. It is hoped that this application can be tested on the community, especially families, to measure the validity and reliability and then use it as an online measuring tool.