contrihub / withyou

A personal safety android app

With You Application

A personal safety application for the masses. Equipped with emergency calling, reminders, emergency SMS, location sharing, nearest hospital/police station directions, etc.

To try hands on the project

1. Clone this repository.
2. Open the project in Android Studio.
3. Just build & deploy to your device.

Contributors

List of contributors can be found in Contributors.md

withyou's Issues

Update dependencies

Android tools are updated regularly, and to use the latest libraries, dependencies need to be updated.
Upgrade the following dependency to the latest versions and make necessary changes, to not break things.

• 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'

Add sound recording feature.

Add the feature to start audio recording by the app and it should restart recording every 30 minutes. This feature, and feature #12 and feature #13 are triggered on the press of location sending option (SOS Button).

UI Improvements

Make some changes in UI, to make it look more attractive.

• Call Number and Text Number look off, make them match the other parts of UI.

UI Improvements

Make some changes in UI, to make it look more attractive.

• The top Bar (where date/time/battery status is present) is green and doesn’t match. Make changes to make them match.

Add photo sharing feature.

If the mobile data is on, the app should be able to share the photos clicked using any photo sharing web API and send the link using location SMS.

Use string.xml in resource folder

Having predefined strings in string.xml is a very good practice in Android, as it allows changes very smoothly. Add all the predefined strings used in res/streing.xml and make necessary changes at places they are used.

UI Improvements

Make some changes in UI, to make it look more attractive.

• Settings UI has unnecessary gradients. Make them material designed.

Add comments for documentation purpose.

In the codebase, comments are not present. Add necessary comments to improve the readability of the code.

Add SMS Support

BroadcastReceiver for Low Battery just shows the text, can add SMS support.

Update dependencies

Android tools are updated regularly, and to use the latest libraries, dependencies need to be updated.
Upgrade the following dependency to the latest versions and make necessary changes, to not break things:

• 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:17.0.0'

Update dependencies

Android tools are updated regularly, and to use the latest libraries, dependencies need to be updated.
Upgrade the following dependency to the latest versions and make necessary changes, to not break things:

• 'com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0-alpha05'

Location Permission needed

In MainActivity.java at line no. 191 Location Permission check is to be added. Add the permission check so the app can use the location.

UI Improvements

Make some changes in UI, to make it look more attractive.

• Add texts on buttons and options.

Reduce splash screen duration.

Having splash screen duration too high does not look very attractive. Reduce it to 2 seconds.

Feature to take and store photos.

Add the feature to take photos from the front and back camera and store them on phone.

Update dependencies

Android tools are updated regularly, and to use the latest libraries, dependencies need to be updated.
Upgrade the following dependency to the latest versions and make necessary changes, to not break things:

• 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'

Making the app translatable to Hindi

After using strings from string.xml, you can easily translate the text appearing in the app. Make necessary changes to make the app translatable to Hindi.