Inspiration
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the main causes of anxiety and distress today. We believe that having access to essential information regarding COVID-19 and being able to visualize the trends would ease such dismay. The users would use this mobile application as a resource to retrieve data on recent changes in cases as well as correlations between different variables that could bring awareness to unexpected associations.
What it does
This mobile application displays recent data relating to COVID-19. The users would be able to visualize the recent trends of the Coronavirus and access informative websites that provides additional information. The app currently graphs data on new cases, new deaths, cumulative cases, as well as cumulative deaths. Furthermore, it portrays trends, such as the correlation between testing and positive cases and cases and unemployment. This pandemic has made it necessary for the users to be updated on essential data and this application would be able to provide such needs.
How I built it
We used the Android Studio tech stack in the Java programming language. We used various sources -- mostly from Youtube -- as it was the majority's first time using Android Studio.
Challenges I ran into
When we first began the project, we used ReactNative, which is another tech stack built for developing mobile application. However, the process of downloading and configuring all the files was time consuming and incompetent with the given time constraint. We decided on Android Studio, which was easier to download and collaborate with the members.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Everything :)
What I learned
Through this project, we not only learned how to use another tech stack, but we also learned how to use GitHub efficiently when collaborating on the project.
What's next for Coronavirus Updates
We hope to implement a real-time-database that is automatically updated and retrievable. Imposing such updates will free up storage space on the user's devices -- users won't need to download large files for the app to function. Moreover, they would be able to get data almost instantly by retrieving it from the cloud.
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