The use of Android smartphones has been emerging quite fast. It distracts most of the students’ attention from their studies. While at one side, it brings some negative impacts on students, on the other hand, it opens some opportunity to use the students’ deep engagement with Android smartphones as a source of excitement to promote physics learning-media. We have conducted research in Surabaya (Indonesia) and its vicinity to address the use of Android smartphones as student physics learning source. Applying the 4-D model, we have developed Android mobile-apps based physics learning-media on several topics of introductory high school physics. The physics learning-media have been tried out by several groups of students and have received positive comments from the users.
In recent years, the use of Android smartphones in the Indonesia community has increased very fast. Along the way, its use in the Educational aspect rises accordingly. The increase improved significantly during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic burst. While this fact has brought pain and sorrow for many, we looked at it differently. It was a kind of a blessing in disguise. Besides many inconveniences, it also opens plenty of opportunities. Instead of giving up, we prefer to develop android-based physics learning-media apps which is now needed more than before. The increase of the online portion on the learning processes during the COVID-19 pushed our spirit to complete the development of learning media apps. This apps has been tried out by high school students and has gained positive response from its users.
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