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Inspiration

So many people died because of the Great Galveston Storm. People knew there was a storm coming, but little did they know that it was coming for them. At those times, people in cities weren’t informed anything. If they were, then maybe some lives would be saved.

What it does

Our app gives you an alert of every natural disaster from heat waves, to earthquakes. All you need to do is select your state and then it will give you all the disasters coming up. You can also click on disasters to view more about them.

How We built it

We first built a mock-up using Adobe XD. Then later we used Xcode and Swift to create the application. We used API’s to get information about the disasters and location of them. The API we ended up using was made by the US government which gives it the best precision out of all the APIs.

Challenges I ran into

Our API made us run into many big problems including it not even functioning to work but we were able to solve that. After that we were almost done with the app but then some problems arised with GitHub and that brought us into another set of problems.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We are overall very proud of our app. We know that this could have saved people in the past and that makes us very proud. We are also proud of making it in a short time.

What we learned

As this was 2 of our teammates first time using an API, we all learned how to implement them into an app. This is also 2 of our members first hackathon so we also learned what a hackathon is.