Disastron is an Indian Disaster Management Android Application, built with active disaster prevention features.
- Active disaster prediction notifications fetched from NDMA database based on your location.
- Social Media support to share disaster alert to people in the affected area using the Facebook SDK.
- Community based disaster tracking by pin pointing location on Shared Map using Firebase.
- Get nearby hospitals at the press of a button
- Crucial disaster management information available in the application.
- Contains different weather maps like air pressure, wind speed etc.
The app was built using Android Studio SDK.
- Current location is fetched using Google Maps Reverse Geooding API.
- Information regarding your current location is scraped from the NDMA Database.
- Google Maps API to spread disaster location on Shared Community Map.
- Facebook API to support push notifications to the people in the affected area.
- Offline information available for severe conditions with no connectivity.
The menu can be seen in the following image:
The map has multiple features which are going to be highlighted below:
The icons from left to right are:
Resets the map back to default settings.
Allows selection between 4 map types: Normal, Satellite, Terrain, Hybrid.
Allows the user to see maps like Clouds, Temperature, Precipitation, Snow, Rain etc.
An example of the wind speed layer during a hurricane can be seen below:
Gets the location of the nearest hospitals with regard to the user
This allows the user to drop help pins at their location with a description.
All pins are updated live using Firebase and here another user's pin can be seen:
The disaster alerts are scraped from the NDMA website and are shown as follows.
When there is an alert in your area:
When there is no alert:
