An end to end tool & an awareness app with COVID-19 Facts, Mythbusters & Support to eradicate the language & context barrier of misinformation that's been spreading on social media & thus creating mass panic here in Bangladesh. Palao Corona, the app along with its website & social media support group, is a part of our movement against the COVID-19 outbreak which aims to prepare people to fight against the CoronaVirus by providing the necessary information, strategy and support.
It's built using Kotlin with layers-by-features packaging, MVVM architecture & other standard practices in Native Android development.
- Easy bilingual support with user navigation
- Continuous slider with graphic illustrations for myth busters, in both languages
- Information portal about COVID-19 and visualizations of how it spreads
- Free COVID-19 risk assessment test
- Firebase Realitime Database integration
- Information portal which fetches most recent news for credible news sources, both in Bangla & English, from our own backend API
- Illustration section for basic DOs and DON'Ts
- Illustration section for explaining the concept of Quarantine in local, contextual and comprehensive contents
- FAQ section with bilingual support
- A portal for Live Updates focusing only on Bangladesh, fetching data from open-sourced data sources, Management Information System (MIS) unit of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Bangladesh and other leading news paper live portals - all with proper attributions, references and credits
- A portal for emergecncy support, one-tap call features and developer contributor lists
- Other native android utilities such as Internet Connectivity check, Language and numeric utitilites, animations, transitions, etc
- Android Studio 3.6.1. The latest version can be downloaded from here
- Build gradle 3.6.1
- Android SDK 29
- Kotlin Version 1.3.70
Go to the following link to download the app, if we continue the support for the domain and our movement.
The following is a high level overview of relevant files and folders.
COVID-19-Bangladesh-Android/
├── app/
│ └── src/
│ └── main/
│ ├── java/xyz/palaocorona
│ │ ├── base
│ │ │ ├── data
│ │ │ ├── ui
│ │ │ └── BaseApplication.kt
│ │ ├── data
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ ├── di
│ │ │ ├── annotations
│ │ │ ├── components
│ │ │ └── modules
│ │ ├── services
│ │ ├── ui
│ │ │ ├── dialogs
│ │ │ └── features
│ │ │ └── ...
│ │ └── util
│ │ └── ...
│ ├── res/
│ └── AndroidManifest.xml
├── gradle/
│ └── wrapper/
│ ├── gradle-wrapper.jar
│ └── gradle-wrapper.properties
├── README.md
├── build.gradle
├── gradle.properties
└── settings.gradle
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After cloning the project, checkout to the branch docs and copy the app-level
build.gradlefile from the directory pathapp/build.gradle. Add it to your local project. -
Connect your app to Firebase, Create a Database and add Firebase Android config files and the essentials (
google-services.json). For more information, please visit Installation & Setup on Android -
[Optional] Create a directory
drawablein the pathapp/src/main/resand add your own demo graphics, which have been removed to protect the content privacy of this movement, Palao Corona. Alternatively, comment out the codes where they have been used to run the demo app -
[Optional] Create a directory
assestsin the pathapp/src/main/and put your animation files in it. Alternatively, comment out the codes where they have been used to run the demo app
<PROJECT_ROOT>\build.gradle: Top-level build file with configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules<PROJECT_ROOT>\app\build.gradle: Gradle specific for app module with libraries used- If you use another module in your project, as a local library, you would have another build.gradle file:
<PROJECT_ROOT>\module\build.gradle
- If you use another module in your project, as a local library, you would have another build.gradle file:
git checkout masterfrom any folder in your localCOVID-19-Bangladesh-Androidrepositorygit pull origin masterto ensure you have the latest main codegit checkout -b the-name-of-my-branch(replacingthe-name-of-my-branchwith a suitable name) to create a branch
- Change/Add the codes
- Save the files and check the codes if it has successfl build config.
- If possible, test the codes the way you want.
git add -A && git commit -m "My message"(replacingMy messagewith a commit message, such asFixed App CrashorAdded App Crash 28 Fix) to stage and commit your changesgit push my-fork-name the-name-of-my-branch- Go to the
COVID-19-Bangladesh-Androidand you should see recently pushed branches. - Follow GitHub's instructions and open up a pull request.
- If possible, include screenshots of visual changes.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Palao Corona
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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SOFTWARE.