Mental health concerns are on the rise and affect a wide range of individuals, especially college students. However, the stigma around mental health makes it difficult for students to reach out for support. The purpose of Better Gator is to create a safe space for the University of Florida students to deal with stress and to express and manage their day-to-day feelings in an accessible and free way.
Project Description Our iOS app provides students with several functionalities including:
- Mood Tracker
- Meditation Timer
- Generative AI Journal Entry Responses
- Calendar Emotion Trends
The technologies we used include:
- Swift UI
- XCode
- Google Gemini for generative AI
- Canva for Graphic Design
Using the App Better Gator is an iOS app that must be run on an Apple iPhone. To test the code present in the repository, one can use the Xcode simulator.
Learning We collectively learned a lot from the project as a team, especially with technologies like Swift UI and XCode for app development, Gemini generative AI and API keys, and Canva for graphic design. Not everyone in our group had the same amount of experience in app development, which created a learning curve.
Outlook In the future, we plan on improving and adding new functionality to our app. A few of these features include creating a journal history so users can look back at previous days and the ability to view emotion trends across a certain time span.
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