How's life

How’s life Have you ever wondered what would happen to you if you are isolating yourself, dealing with economic challenges along with decreased access to community and religious support, and other daily disruptions? This is exactly what billions of people around the world are going through right now. Scientists believe that suicide and anxiety rates will increase due to the pandemic. This app was originally going to be an app for students to test their knowledge and help reduce the summer slide in education (the loss of knowledge over summer). But after some iterations of the design process, we shifted the focus from education to mental health and ended up using some of the basic functionality we already had in the previous version of the app. This app focuses on the people who are isolating themselves due to the pandemic and teens in general since suicide rates are going up within the teen age-group. This app was made to guide them and help them through the rough times. With features such as meditation, allowing you to release anxiety and forget about it, as well as the depression quiz if you want to know if you are depressed (populated with questions from the National Suicide Hotline) which will give you suggestions on the user's current situation. This app is your companion; Whenever you need support the app can help you, by either suggesting you to talk to family members, or in extreme cases, calling the National Suicide Hotline or various other organizations. Throughout the project, we had multiple challenges and learning moments. First, there was the UI. It did not look professional or attractive and it took us a long time to fix. We did so by adding backgrounds and working on constraints as well as the buttons and their diameters. In the midst of our difficulties, we realized it was not just about the UI but also the meditation part of the app. When we would try and find the .mp3 from the raw file it would say the system was not resolved. The way we fixed it was by changing the song name from a capital letter to a lowercase. As we are beginners, this was our first time using Android Studios and using Google Vision Cloud. We learned the difference between relative layout and constraint layout as well as what the Manifest is and .xml vs .java and dependencies. We basically learned all the essentials on how to build an app with our previous knowledge of Java. In summary, this Hack-a-Thon was a great opportunity for us to bond with each other and to feed our passion for coding.