Anchor is my 2025 Swift Student Challenge submission. It helps people through a panic attack or migraine using the psychiatric principle of dropping anchor and incorporating information from trusted sources such as the Mayo Clinic.
I used a lot of technologies to make Anchor possible. SwiftUI was the primary framework as the building block for the UI. But with that, I also used AVFoundation, CoreHaptics, and MediaPlayer for the direct UX. This was presented in the music, sfx, and haptic feedback to button clicking. For the mantra repetition in Panic Attack Relief, I used Speech to translate the audio to text for code interpretation with Regex. Similarly, PencilKit was used for the sketching canvas feature in both relief sectors. Combine was used in the background for the moving mesh gradients to animate them moving in random positioning, making my life programming significantly easier. Finally, SwiftData was responsible for the persistance of Medication Logging.
For information on the medical research and assets used, visit Sources.md.
Here is my super rushed demo 😅.
I am sorry there isn't any SFX, the audio didn't capture and I added the music in post.