Inspiration
Recently my mother was talking about a show she watched on television where they discussed the affects of daily doses of positivity on mental health. She had an idea to create an app that would give you motivation every morning, and today we made that happen. With mental illness substantially growing in the West, hopefully this app can help inspire or encourage fighters to keep fighting.
What it does
The app will take any picture you have and overlay a quote of your favourite category to be displayed on your Android home screen. You have the ability to change your fonts, the timing of any quote updates, and your quote text colour too!
How we built it
We use the Twitter4j API to collect all types of quotes to be overlay-ed onto your home screen. We used android studio to develop all of the settings and functionality found in the app.
Challenges we ran into
Android permissions seemed to slip away from us as we tried to access personal wallpapers, but we surely conquered the issue.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Completing the app! We did not sleep and did not stop working. I'm impressed :)
What we learned
We learned a lot about Android services and how to interact with activities without using Handlers!
What's next for MotivateMe
More personal customisation! Probably bold fonts too. We will also want to be adding functionality for image cropping and filtering within the app.
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