Mood Motivator

A simple app for the not so simple task of tracking your moods and thoughts throughout the days. Like an electronic journal in your pocket, you can take it anywhere you go!

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Inspiration

I recently saw an uptick in the concern for student mental health on campus, and I know that there are a few apps out there that can help, but the recommended options by the school are almost all paid or subscription based, which isn't realistic for many college students

What it does

The app lets you check boxes signifying how you're feeling right now, then write a short description of how it's going so you can keep track of your feelings throughout your week. You can go back and look at your previous entries as well.

How I built it

We built this app in Java using AndroidStudio, none of us had ever developed a mobile app using this system before so it was a bit of a learning curve to get everything up and running.

Challenges I ran into

We couldn't figure out how to get firebase running, but that's alright because instead we decided to just use Java to write to a text file for now because we realized that it wouldn't work for us at the moment.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud of figuring out how to write to an android file system and reread the data. We also had to come up with a format to store our data in so it would be easily understandable and parse-able when we read it back from the file.

What I learned

I learned how to use Java to write an android app and store data locally to the device as well. I learned a lot about user interfaces in mobile programs as well and what does and doesn't feel and look right.

What's next for Mood Markdown

Hopefully implementation of a database, as well as authentication and user accounts. We hope to also make more visuals to help you interpret your moods and thoughts over the weeks and days, like graphs for your moods and such.

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