Inspiration
Our inspiration for creating this IOS app was to inform the public of Texas COVID-19 and its current state to help spread awareness.
What it does
The app is three paged app which each share COVID-19 data in a different way. There is also a signup feature for users to receive daily notifications on the status of COVID-19 in Texas.
How I built it
The front end of the app was built using Swift and Xcode using various storyboards and tableviews to display the data. The backend of the application was implemented through Google Firebase, where the data was stored in Cloud Firestore and the notification feature was implemented through google cloud functions. Along with this, we have a python script running on a cloud server that web scrapes the data into the firestore database.
Challenges I ran into
Our biggest challenge was figuring out how we were going to get the Texas COVID data. At the start of the project, we couldn't find an API for COVID specifically in the state of Texas so we resulted to web scraping certain pages for our data.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are proud of everything about this app and hackathon! We have never built any type of full-stack app so coming in not knowing much and coming out with a finished product is something we are very happy about and we are grateful for this opportunity.
What I learned
We've learned IOS development, many backend technologies, and other things that come with working on a group project.
What's next for COVIDTexas
Since we have a basic functional app, we hope to implement additional features that would make the application more unique!
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