Covid-19 KW Tracker

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  REST API JSON Response

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  Region of Waterloo Waterloo Website

Check out our Demo Video!

Inspiration

We felt the need to make data provided by the Waterloo reigon, more accessible on mobile devices.

We'd like to thank the Region of Waterloo for making this data available on their website, during this global pandemic.

What it does

Retriving a list of confirmed cases of Covid-19 from the Region's website, we display it in a mobile friendly format in an Android App.

How We built it

We built a Flask API backend that uses BeautifulSoup4 to scrape the Region of Waterloo's webpage. This Flask application runs on heroku, and exposes a REST API endpoint which returns JSON data of the Covid-19 cases in KW

Our Android app makes a request to the our above REST API, and displays it on screen to the user in a RecyclerView. Using Android's LiveData, ViewModel, and databinding, we display the data to the user in real time.

Accomplishments that We're proud of

This was our first time making an Android App, as well as using Flask.

What we learned

We learnt a lot about how Android interacts with other services, and how to access a REST API JSON data feed.

What's next for Covid 19 Tracker

We'd like to add another page, that displays a graph of the data to better visualize new cases. We're also aiming to implement a more user-friendly UI.

References

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7606077/how-to-display-long-messages-in-logcat
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33229869/get-json-data-from-url-using-android
• https://abhiandroid.com/programming/json

Built With

• android
• flask