QuickAid

INSPIRED US: QuickAid is our contribution towards a safer world where no one is alone and a step towards a much safer world. Whenever in distress, press a button and this will automatically notify people nearby of your location and others can respond to your distress call. This creates a social responsibility among users and eliminates any central body ensuring quicker response to any distress calls. CHALLENGES WE FACED: (a)Handling location changes in the background (b)Finding nearby users (queries in mongodb using geolocation object) (c)Configuring Hardware buttons . STEPS TO BUILD THE PROJECT: (a)clone the repo in your local machine (b)do yarn in root directory (c)do flutter pub get in client/helpMe (d)add firebase to your flutter project and firebaseadminsdk.json in your root directory (e)add MONGO_URI, JWT_SECRET, TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN in your .env (f)do yarn dev in the root directory and your backend is up and running (e)do flutter run in client/helpMe and your app will start with no issues