Emergency Phone Numbers

Inspiration

I sat in the car on my way home from my family's cabin, when I wondered what I would do if an emergency occurred - as I had no idea where we were. I then started thinking about an app that could provide you the correct emergency numbers, as well as your location.

How it works

The app automatically finds the emergency phone numbers (police, fire and medical) for the country you're in and shows you your location in coordinates, address and on a map. When you're calling, the coordinates shows up as the contact name in the call view. The app contains emergency phone numbers for over 250 countries and territories, and if you're looking for the emergency phone numbers for a specific country - just select it from the list.

Challenges I ran into

I ran into many challenges regarding coding as this was the first app I've ever created, luckily I had StackOverflow.com that answered basically every question I had. The biggest challenge I met was integrating Mixpanel as I had no experience with CocoaPods and found it very difficult. Luckily I found a YouTube video, after hours of trying and failing, that explained it to me. I love Internet!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm really proud that I did everything my self with a pretty good result, at least if you ask me! I designed the UI in Sketch 3 and developed the app using Objective-C in Xcode. In May 2015, I recreated the app from sketch using Swift.

What I learned

This was my first app ever, so I basically learned what's needed for developing apps; The process of creating an app, got familiar with the programming language and frameworks, designing UI and a lot more.

What's next for Emergency Phone Numbers

Creating a website where people can find the emergency phone numbers using their computer or non-iPhone. I'm also considering a version for Android and Windows Phone.