Promly Android App

Project Description:

Promly is a social enterprise that was founded by Jennifer Libby, a psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience treating at-risk adolescents. In response to the social media industry’s lack of responsibility for the growing youth mental crisis exacerbated by social media platforms, Promly was created as a safer and healthier alternative. The aim of Promly is to act as a social network platform for its target users, Gen Z, where they can connect with one another while also being provided various features to help address mental health issues and coping strategies.

To achieve this goal, Promly developed an iOS mobile application that is currently in beta. However, to ensure a wider reach of their audience they also wanted an Android app version, and so our team was tasked with creating the Android mobile app version of Promly as our project. Due to limited time and resources our team had narrowed down the specific features of the Android app to develop at least 1 main feature which is the ‘We Got You’ feature. The major function of the We Got You feature is to provide immediate access to crisis, suicide prevention, and mental health resources. It also provides various stories, articles, and questions from peers where the user can get information and answers provided by therapists and mental health professionals. Within the scope of this project, all that information is currently mocked up.

As the client already had a beta in place for their iOS version of the application, our main goals were to replicate the look and feel of the iOS app for Android. We first worked on the layouts of the We Got You feature pages and made sure to follow the client’s UI design including button placements, images, and branding colours. Afterwards we focused on implementing functionality so that the user can navigate between pages and scroll up and down the pages with ease. This also included buttons that can be pressed and redirect the user to the right pages (such as specific mock articles) or functions such as the device’s dial pad/SMS application to contact holistic resources.

Working on this project has taught us how to cooperate as a team and use agile methodology to deliver parts of a project in sprints. We also learned more about mobile development for Android and how to use a GitHub repo for storing our code. With the completion of this project, the client will have the base for the ‘We Got You’ feature for Android and they can proceed with replacing the mock data with their database and continue further development.

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