Blood Donation App

Hello Everyone,

This application is an ongoing collaborative project made by the Google Udacity Android Developer Scholarship Recipients.

How the app will work?

This app keeps a list of voluntary donors.
A Voluntary Donor has to make an account on our app with some general information like:
- Name
- Age
- Blood Group
- City name [Can also provide access to his live location].
On the other side, the one who needs blood, will create a request for blood unit with his blood group and location.

On Creating a Blood Request

All persons near him i.e. our voluntary donors will receive notification for such request. (e.g. Person A needs blood at XYZ hospital or 123.456.789 location)

The requester is shown a map of all the blood donors with the requested blood group with their live location near him. (Consider an example when we search for cab on Ola or Uber app)

Benefits of the Project

Connecting Blood Donors and Recipients.
- Sometimes people don't find blood at the correct time. This app can help there by connecting donors and recipients.
Reduce the wastage of blood.
- Usually Blood banks store more blood so that they fulfil every requirement because the demand for blood is undefined.

Use the project with your own Firebase instance and Google Maps API key

Create a new project in the Firebase console.
Click Add Firebase to your Android app
- use the applicationId value specified in the app/build.gradle file of the app as the Android package name
- insert SHA-1 fingerprint of your debug certificate
Download the generated google-services.json file, and copy it to the app/ directory of your project.
Get you own google map API key. See the quick guide to getting an API key.

Find .gradle folder in your home directory, create a file named gradle.properties (if not present).

Usually it can be found at:

  Windows: C:\Users\<Your Username>\.gradle
  Mac: /Users/<Your Username>/.gradle
  Linux: /home/<Your Username>/.gradle

  Inside it there would be a file named gradle.properties (just create it if there isn’t any).

Open the gradle.properties file and paste your API key into the value of the GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY property, like this

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=PASTE-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE
Now you should be able to successfully sync the project.

Contributing

We welcome your contributions to this project. There are various ways to contribute:

Reporting issues

Help improve the project by reporting issues that you find by filing a new issue at the Blood Donation App issue tracker.

Features suggestions

You can also add feature suggestions by filing a new issue at the Blood Donation App issue tracker.