Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from the current COVID-19 pandemic which has brought the world to a standstill. Currently, the United States has the largest number of cases, however, a few months ago, South Korea had one of the highest cases. The way they were able to solve their problem was to use location-tracking devices to track people who break quarantine.
What it does
Our app, CovTrack takes inspiration from South Korea and evolves it to keep people from places where patients with the virus or symptoms of the virus have moved around recently. The app will send an alert to people in a predetermined area if a person with symptoms has crossed by a street. To combat privacy concerns, the tracking will be kept anonymous and will not allow others to see the patient's actual location just a warning zone.
How I built it
Our app was built using Android-studio IDE with Java being the main language used to build CovTrack. We also used Google's API in order to implement google maps as a part of our UI.
Challenges I ran into
Some challenges that we ran to was trying to set up the location tracking for the project. We were new at using real time location tracking so we had to learn from scratch how to set it up and get it working for our demo.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Since this is our first hackathon, we are proud of the fact that we managed to complete what we sought to accomplish with our app within the given timeframe.
What I learned
What we learned from this project was how to implement google maps into Android Studio and how to use it. We also learned how to program more efficiently and learn how to manage our time well as this was our first hackathon and we had to manage our time well because we had limited time to complete the project.
What's next for CovTrack
Our next steps for this app would be to implement better UI designs to make it more user - friendly and under the hood security features to reduce privacy concerns. Additionally, we would add server-side functionality to allow the capacity of many more users and a login connection with doctors and trusted government officials to input and change the status of users to understand who has symptoms of coronavirus.
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