RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN “BASA SAMAWA” BERBASIS ANDROID

Each region has its own regional language which is used as its identity. Besides culture, regional language also needs to be preserved in order to be known and understood by the next generation. In this case, the author conducts research to help the community in Sumbawa, especially in studying and adding insight to the language of the Sumbawa region. The activity of the authors in this research is to create an Android-based learning application "Basa Samawa" that can be used anywhere and anytime. In the application creation process, the authors use waterfall method as the development method. After the creation process is complete, testing the application using the Black Box testing method. With this application, Android users can access dictionaries in digital form which has various features such as audio-visual feature and also equipped with image as well as sample sentences. The Samawa base app can be accessed via the Play Store using the minimum Android version 4.4 (Kitkat).