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Nowadays, shopping malls become very important in our society. Shopping mall is a type of complex public building. There is a total of 41.7 percent of people visited shopping malls at least once a week based on the previous survey. People always encountered problems when they are trying to find a certain store in the shopping mall due to the complexity of the building. structure They are forced to find their way around the malls with the old-fashioned method: asking directions, looking for way finding directory, trial, and error. Therefore, a shopping mall indoor navigation application should be developed to provide a complete direction guide to the shoppers. The indoor navigation application should allow users to easily find their way to the desired stores, display detailed information, and the latest promotions offered by each store. The indoor navigation application must be able to provide more robust, reliable and accurate indoor navigation to the users. This application only relying on the Wi-Fi positioning system (WiPS/WFPS) technique, which is a Wi-Fi-based location system. This technique enables the application to plot the shopper’s current location on the mall’s map and further provide the indoor navigation from and to any location in a mall. Based on the usability testing, most of the respondents are satisfied with the application from the aspects like usefulness, efficiency, ease of use, and also enhance in terms of aesthetics. Shoppers no longer get lost in the shopping mall as the maps and navigation function of the mall are resides in the palm of the shopper’s hand. This paper presents a shopping mall indoor navigation application using a …