This will be an Android phone application, and as such will be designed to interface with the hardware present on the Android phone. In theory the application will be able to run by other devices that can emulate the Android, but this will not be a consideration during design. There are 4 physical buttons on the phone. The options button will be used specifically in multiple instances to bring up menus, such as in bringing up the ability to add an idea during the idea generation phase.
As this is a mobile device, it will be using the Android network to connect to the internet, which will allow it to communicate with the database servers. This means that it will be using the infrastructure, be it wireless communication points or physical lines, of the network in order to perform properly. There will have to be some sort of error checking for if the network is down or inaccessible.
