Sunrise

Inspiration

1 in 4 College students have a mental illness. What if there was a very simple app, with a calming user interface, to combat these illnesses?

What it does

Sunrise is meant to be used in the morning when first waking up. The user wakes up and picks the emoji that best represents how they are feeling. Maybe they feel anxious, angry, suicidal, sad, happy, or tired. Upon establishing their feelings, they are brought to a page to help them combat whatever they may be going through. Each page provides different aspects to help the user feel better: sounds, quotes, advice, direct text messaging and calling to hotlines, helpful places to visit, videos to watch, and an overall comfortable user interface. Also, every time they choose their mood, it is tracked and graphed to demonstrate how they feel each week. Sunrise is also meant to help users at any time as it provides access to many mental illness related resources.

How I built it

Sunrise is an IOS app built in Xcode using Swift. Multiple different IOS controllers and pages with segues connect to each other to create an inviting interface. Using different controllers, texts, calls, and outside links can be accessed.

Challenges I ran into

Plotting the mood data in a graph took a long time, as the data had to be used w Defaults to save their values upon exiting and entering the app. Also designing the entire user interface was very time consuming, although I used a free icon pack for the artwork, designing the layout and specific dimensions of every object took a long time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The app itself, I am very proud that I was able to create a working IOS application for a great cause while only having myself to work with. One of the greatest accomplishments in the app was working w a direct texting feature to a depression hotline and a direct calling feature to the suicide hotline. I could most definitely see someone in real life using this app, and loving the simplicity of its interface and multitude of features.

What I learned

I learned how to integrate the messaging and calling apps into my own app and open links through a click of a button (taking the user to Google maps to find a nearby gym to release anger and frustration).