Relax App

Inspiration

Actually when I read the theme 'Mental health in Covid-19', I got triggered with the flashback when my mother was tested positive for covid, I remembered how me and my sister was stressed and we were searching for people who have the proper knowledge, we were searching for someone who can tell us that in how many days covid test report will come, what to do, what not to do, and to every doubt all we want is someone who actually faced the same and to guide us with that. I remember we got some useful videos on the internet which actually helped us throughout and now if I want to help another patient with those videos there is no such platform to find covid patients, to help them, and no platform for covid patients to ask for advice, ask for help, and this feeling of nobody for help affects the mental health too much.

What it does

Basically, it connects the patient to other patients as well as the people who actually faced the same and are willing to help, Application contains chat channels like why not to worry, do's, don'ts, general, fun, so people can help each other by posting in channels, talking in the general channel, one covid patient can invite other for online games like ludo, etc in the fun channel... So the beauty of the Application is that there are people going or gone through the same phase, so they can help each other and motivate each other because they are willing and also they know the mental state of each other..

How we built it

Using Kotlin for frontend, and Firebase Database for the backend, FirebaseAuth for authentication, RecyclerView, Fragments, Drawer, etc...

Challenges we ran into

Didn't knew how the backend instances for chatting look like, took too much time, efforts, and testing to figure out the chat part.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The chat part in the channel is working properly, works like a WhatsApp message card, that small part took too much time to make it perfect

What we learned

At the very start of the Hackathon, I challenged myself to learn as much as possible and to include some topics which I was procrastinating to learn from so much time.. what I learned: working with Fragments, Drawer layout, navigation view, RecyclerView Scroll Techniques, etc