Project Insomnia

Screenshot of Wake Up's Home Screen

Inspiration

Now a days, people want be keep their health up, physically and mentally. So we thought of an idea for an app that will help out with that, called Wake Up! Also, we thought of other ideas of apps that could help out people in need and in everyday life. The amount of poverty, sick, and helpless people and animals on this planet is large. One of our other apps is the Charity app, which allows people to donate to charities with just the tap of a button. Our other app is the disaster prevention app, it provides safe routes on roads when there are natural disasters.

What it does

We wanted to create a Fitness app (Wake Up) that was mainly accessible in the morning, this idea would motivate people to get up and start the day positive and with a workout. These workouts would be tracked and once completed would be earned achievements which could be shared among friends who use the app as well. The App is only available whenever the user wakes up, this is taken into consideration for people who work the night shift. We also created a non-profit app called Founder. Founder is an app that lets users to easily and quickly donate money to the charities they want it to go towards. Founder provides the user with a list of organizations that the user might be interested in. If the user wants they can donate money to the charity. Also users don't need to worry about the app taking money from their donations because all the money goes straight towards where the user wants it to go to.

How we built it

All of the apps we built this weekend were mainly used with Android Studio and many other different resources we could find. We thought about using different pieces of hardware, but we ended up using out laptops and the new programs we downloaded for it. We tried our best to figure out the best solution to each problem.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first Hackathon project. Since it was our first Hackathon we didn't know what to expect and got intimidated easily, but once we got used to it we were able. to move efficiently. Also during the Hackathon we kept on running into problems with finding the right coding language and the right software because of this we kept on having to back track and had to start over. Another problem we ran into was Android Studio because none of us has ever used it before. Android Studio was a very complicated software system that we didn't understand, but since we. work. good in teams we were able to solve a lot of problems together. These are some of the challenges we ran into.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the 2 apps we were able to start and get functioning well. We are also proud of the game that Nick was able to create in such a short time, called Blocky's Adventure (Not linked to). This being all of our first Hackathon, we accomplished way more than what we thought. We put in many hours of hard work and having to push through was very tough but worth it.

What we learned

As a group we learned a lot of new things. One of the major new things we learned was how to create an android app on our laptops. We did this through Android Studios which is another program that we learned a lot from. Android Studios was a software that was completely different to us. It was complicated to learn, but as we worked through it together we learned about all the things we can do with it. We also learned how to use Unity to make a short game that has been able to help us with our topics.

What's next for Project Insomnia

We may go back and finish the app so it will be fully functional and post it in the Google Play store for people to use. We also hope to return to another Hackathon together and compete.

Built With

android-studio
autodesk-sketchbook
c#
github
java
javascript
kotlin
kritika
unity

Submitted to

HackMerced V

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I worked on the app. Starting off with getting everyone into Android Studio and us all synced up with the GitHub. I ended up doing most of the work on the app while the rest of the team worked on other projects. We definitely accomplished a lot more than I was expecting and I've learned a whole lot about coding in languages I've never touched before.

Luna lynn
I believe that this group excelled compared to what we would have been without each other. Over all we were extremely effective, partially in part due to my leadership on spiting the projects at the beginning of the hackathon and over all checking in with people. While we started I pioneered, along with Luna, the instillation of node.js and Android Studio. During the project I helped developed two of the three elevator pitches we had made for programs we had scrapped. In addition I put together my skills in HTML, Java, and Kotlin. This was where I over all helped with the design and some of the functions of the two android app programs. In addition I supported the weight of the Unity game project while my teammates were preoccupied. This required me to have to make my own music, make a story concept, program in C#, design everything visible in the game, and have a strong understanding on how to build a program. In addition I had learned and started progress on a new website, which includes uploading it to the internet and having functional web-pages as well as a owned domain, however it was not nearly in good enough shape to demo on this day. In addition we had come up with several other ideas that we had not been able to enact on due to the limited time.

Nicholas Clifford
I helped mainly on the front end development of the Fitness App like the fonts, colors, themes and designs. We used Android Studio with java. Using Android Studio for my first time, I thought I did well and contributed to the group. I also helped out with creating the Charity App. This was my first Hackathon and I learned and gained alot from this experience.

Marcus Solomon
IT Office Trainee - B.S. Computer Science and Engineering
My main role was to help. Supply the group with ideas and helped around with code for the fitness app. I also made the Founder app for android by using the android studio program. The app was used to help donate money. I also helped create the elevator pitches for other app ideas we had. These elevator pitches were meant to make our other possible apps seem appealing to use and support. I used programs like Android Studio, Visual Studio Code, and I mainly used the language java to code. For my first Hackathon I feel like I accomplished a lot and did better then I think I would. Also my group surpassed my expectations and. we worked well together. We would support our strengths and weaknesses. This was a great experience.

Darshwak Dhami