The problem STREE - Women Security and Empowerment App. solves

People think Women Safety is just raising voice against women violence but it is also about women becoming independent individuals who can face all circumstances and difficulties in their future life.

We have decided to divide the Stree App into mainly 4 modules-

Women Safety:

In this module, we have made a multifunctional SOS button that will first start a buzzer at a high volume to alert the surroundings that a crime is being committed. Secondly, the app will send an SMS to the emergency contacts of the user with her location. And lastly, the app will start voice recording. We always hope that nothing should happen to women in our country but if a crime has been committed on her this voice recording will help her to punish the person who did this to her.

Marketplace:

The second module will empower women in this country financially. We have made an online marketplace for small entrepreneurs in our country where they can sell their products as well as buy the products from other users without middleman commission like on Amazon and Flipkart.

Awareness:

Lack of Awareness is the main reason for falling behind. So for spreading Awareness in women we have encapsulated the different Helplines & Government Schemes for Women.

Skill Development:

One of the Key factors in Empowerment is to Build & improve skills, so we came up with this section of Skill Development. We will provide the best YouTube playlists with some genres like cooking, self-defence & by clicking them you will be redirected.

The main aim of this android application is to empower women. The final product should help to make this world a better place for all women to live in as it mainly focuses on all the important aspects of human life which are very crucial. Even a single needful woman gets help from Stree App would be a huge victory for us! In the end, we conclude that STREE would play a vital role in the overall progress of the female community around the country.

Challenges we ran into

We faced many challenges during the development process of the STREE app.

Small challenges like setting up firebase in our app, set up room persistence library for emergency contacts.

The harder challenges that we faced are as follows:

1)While developing the online marketplace, we faced a bug where the image for the product was not rendering on the screen. To solve this bug we used the Picasso library to render the image that was stored in the firebase storage.

2)Another challenge we faced was in the security module. It was to get the exact coordinates of the current location of the user when the SOS button is clicked.

3)Trying to completely develop the app in the given time.