The problem Astra solves

🚀Problem 1-
As humans we are expanding our boundaries from Earth to space.It took only 63 years when we were flying for the first time in 1903 (wright brothers first flight) and in just 1969 we reached the moon. Soon there will be flights to moon and NASA is trying to make a complete lunar base on moon by 2030. The people on earth can easily connect with each other and also they have no limitation in connecting with the nature. But astronauts sitting in international space station or on another spaceships or in future on other planets will not be able to connect with the people or not able to connect with the nature on earth.

So we are encountering this problem by providing specific sounds from the nature, sounds like of snow, rain, water, Ocean, seas, chattering of birds, forests etc. So that the astronauts sitting in the spaceship can listen the sounds and can still feel that they are connected with nature.

🚀Problem 2-
We are not limiting our app to just for the use of astronauts it is also for the users who is on the planet earth and wanted to connect with the astronauts present in lower Earth orbit in ISS(as we know ISS had internet connection).

Socialize tab will enable users to post threads & photos related to astrophysics and space science. A profile tab shows users profile and socialize tab will show all the post posted by different people around the world as well as in international space station.

🚀Problem 3-
Last but not the least at the home tab we included all the astrophysicist & astronauts biographies that how they impacted the field of space science so that the users can understand that how these people impacted the world with their work in space science

Challenges we ran into

☄We struggled in making good UI/UX, because we wanted this app to create imagination in users.

☄We connected our app with firebase firestore and authentication for data processing.

☄Also showing the saved data on Firestore in a recyclerview in Android application was a great challenge.

☄Implementing the music tab with specific sounds and debugging the seekbar and forward & backward play sound buttons.