COVIDToolkit

The first screen of the FAQ section
The second screen of the FAQ section
The statistics screen without any input
The statistics screen with input
The first screen of the timer section
The second screen of the timer section
The third screen of the timer section
The fourth screen of the timer section

Inspiration

We wanted to help people who are dealing with the effects of COVID-19 by providing information and tools that they can use to lessen the risk of contraction as well as learn more about the virus itself.

What it does

This toolkit has two main features. The first one is the Stats tab. It gives users the ability to view the COVID-19 statistics for the present day and yesterday, showing deaths, total cases and recovery numbers. The second feature is the Timer tab which gives the users access to a 20 second hand-washing timer accompanied with a recommended hand-washing technique (taken from WHO). There is also a FAQ section addressing some common questions to do with COVID-19 also extrapolated from WHO.

How we built it

We build this app using Android Studio writing our code in Java. The statistics section hits the https://github.com/novelcovid/api API to get the appropriate information.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge was in using GitHub to collaborate as we are not necessarily too experienced with merging branches so there were some conflicts there but programmatically most of us resolved issues in a timely fashion.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We all learned a bit more about how to use Android Studio a bit more and since we all have a vested interest in the IDE it was a positive accomplishment for all of us.

What we learned

We learned more about time management and working/communicating within a group, especially through GitHub. This will be useful for the direction all of us are going.

What's next for COVIDToolkit

Maybe obtaining more complex information from the API or design improvements. Maybe more features would be a good idea for the toolkit as well.

Built With

android-studio
https://github.com/novelcovid/api
java

Created by

I worked on the FAQ tab and managing that scrolling images section on the Timer tab. I synced up the timer with the images. It was a bit challenging because it was my first time using the ViewFlipper component. I also helped a bit with general debugging. This is my second time working on an app in a group.

Tyrone Nolasco
I worked on the app's ability to fetch and retrieve the statistics for the current day and yesterday's deaths, cases and recovery numbers. This was done by using the novelcovid api. This was my second time attempting to extract the specific data that I wanted to be displayed from an api. This project and my role in it has improved my knowledge of JSONObjects and JSONArrays and utilizing api's.

Peter Nguyen
gouu1 Gee

Updates

Tyrone Nolasco started this project — Apr 09, 2020 05:04 AM EDT

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