During the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠, many people was stuck in their homes, ALONE - Especially, our grandparents.
One way to keep in touch with our families and friends - WhatsApp video calls! 📹
Most of the seniors don't have a smartphone or a tablet to communicate with their families with video calls.
Even if they have a smartphone, it is very difficult for them to use this video calls feature.
Connet is an app (for all android devices!) that has only one purpose - making the video call procedure simple, extremely easy and accessible! ✌️
simple!
First, open your drawer, and take one of your old smartphone (we all know that you have few like this😜),
install Connect and place the smartphone in your grandparents home.
And than, 3 steps:
- When your grandparents want to make a video call, they simply calling you with their land line phone, and asking you to make the video call
- You make the video call using Whatsapp
- They answering by pressing the bigggg green button! 💚
Simple right? This way, your grandparents don't need to learn how to use smartphone, WhatsApp and all others confusing apps.
That's what we really like about Connect. Even your סבתא פולנייה will like it! When nobody is calling (idle mode), the screen will be open and the time & date will shown.
The app need to run on Physical Android device, with Whatsapp working on it. After the Onboarding screens, the setting screen will open and you will need to allow the app to listen to WhatsApp notifications (listen only to the kind of messages - text, video call or regular call, not the content!). After allowing this permission, you can start accepting video calls.
My name is Yuval, CS student from Haifa Univ., graduating at the end of this semester (February).
I have 3 years of experience in Android development - 1.5 years from my recent job (you can see it in my Linkedin profile) and 1.5 years from many many personal projects.
I have a strong passion for developing mobile apps (Android and cross platform - Flutter),
and I'm looking for a junior position after graduating (in February - wow it's very close 🥳).
I really enjoyed working on this Connect project, and hope that you will also like it.