kNOw Corona

kNOw Corona is an android powered application for Android Automotive infotainment devices . Developed using latest Android Architecture componenets + Car API data(Emulator control - Car sensor data) utilization.

Its an real time application fetches latest information about Covid19 from the world, thanks to NovelCovid for the API.

Features 🧾

Global Cases : Shows Total Covid-19 cases in the world from API
Country : User can search for a particular country to get latest Total, Recovered and Deceased cases.
Map view : Shows Covid-19 cases in an map view
Covid News : Shows latest news specifically about Covid-19, user can see the news in detailed by clicking it.

Automotive Features 🚗

RSS TTS : If the user was in News Page and trying to access the car by ignition ON, the application will automatically starts reading(Text to speech) the news.

Criteria : Ignition ON + (Vehicle Speed > 10)

Permissions

<uses-permission android:name="android.car.permission.CAR_SPEED" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.car.permission.CAR_POWERTRAIN" />

Screenshots 📷


AA HMI	Splash HMI	Home HMI


Countries HMI	Search Country HMI	Search Country Result HMI


Map HMI	RSS-Corona News HMI	RSS - Detailed(Vehicle Criteria ON) HMI

Demo 🎥

AA Getting Started 📖

Android Automotive is the new embedded, fully functional operating system for vehicles. It contains a bunch of API packages allowing us to integrate Android OS functionalities with our car. Read More...

To build this application, we should aware of AOSP build (Android Open Source Project)

Here I have used latest AOSP ROM to build android service jar.

If using jar is complicated please use this Linux SDK to build.

Build with 🛠️

Java
Android Architecture Components
- LiveData - Data objects that notify views when the underlying database changes.
- ViewModel - Stores UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
Room - A persistence library provides an abstraction layer over SQLite
Car API - Bunch of apis from Android specifically used to communicate with car data.
Event Bus - Simplifies the communication between components(Pub/Sub)

Web API 🌐

NovelCovid - For Corona data
News API - For Latest Cororna news(RSS)

Utils 🧰

Licence 📝

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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