Seoulhacks IHW COVID-19 Android app

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  Learn about COVID-19 and what to do about it!

Inspiration

With COVID-19 affect billions of lives around the world, we were inspired to build an app that could effectively and efficiently educate people on this situation, as well as add additional information related to it. We were also mainly inspired by the Seoulhacks hackathon to build this app.

What it does

This app does a variety of things. First off, it contains web links to multiple credible sources, including WHO, NIH, CDC, and ECDC, where you can learn more about COVID-19 as well as look at statistics specific to Korea. It also contains a screen that will help guide anyone on the next steps to take to prevent further infection or spread. Lastly, it will give additional resources such as Q&A's and entertainment ideas that can be useful during quarantine.

How I built it

After hearing the prompt, we were determined to put our app-making skills to the test. Having built smaller and simple apps before on MIT App Inventor, we decided to use the same platform. Using tools such as WebViewer, we were able to grab useful information from the internet (which are all credited).

Credit sources: https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus#tab=tab_1 https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/overview/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/non-us-settings/overview/index.html https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19-pandemic http://ncov.mohw.go.kr/en/bdBoardList.do https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks

Challenges I ran into

It was rather difficult splitting the work; because we decided to use a "non-cooperation-friendly" website, making sure each member of the group had his tasks done was a struggle.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Having built an entire app in a span of two days was definitely an accomplishment we were proud of. Having not made one in a really long time, our app-building skills were rather rusty. Despite this, we were able to build a fully functioning COVID-19 app, which we definitely see has an achievement.

What I learned

One thing we learned was how fun it was to compete in these hackathons. While this did take a lot of time and effort, we had a lot of fun coming up with ideas and creating them using code.

What's next for Seoulhacks IHW COVID-19 Project

We hope to spread our app at a larger scale, making it even easier to access. As it stands, the application is only accessible as an apk file, and iOS does not support this time of file. Hopefully, we will be able to get this app on the Google Playstore within the next couple weeks and eventually reach out to iOS.

Built With

• mit-app-inventor