PENGEMBANGAN APLIKASI PENGENALAN HURUF HIJAIYAH BERBASIS ANDROID MOBILE (Studi Kasus: TK Al Irsyad Al Islamiyah Purwokerto)

The use of smartphone technology today is not only felt by adults, but even early childhood too. there are even parents who deliberately give smartphones to their children to play games, this can result in children's dependence on smartphones. the use of android smartphone technology can be used as a learning tool, it is one way to support children to want to actively learn. Introducing the application becomes an option when children start to get used to using smartphone technology. This study aims to create applications that can be used to introduce the basics of learning hijaiyah letters for early childhood. This application has 4 learning methods namely, Pop Hijaiyah, Learning Tartil, Quis Tartil, Augmented Reality Hijaiyah. This application system development method uses a Benington version of the waterfall. This application was created using Android Studio 3.5.3 tools and uses the ArCore kit to run Augmented Reality. This application can run on Android 7.0 Nougat or higher version, by making this application is expected to reduce the bad habits of playing games and playing social media. In addition, parents begin to get their children used technology wisely, such as using