ERICA HANSON: Great.
So now we're going to move on to the next project.
This is called Shareapy.
And it's created by a team in Vietnam.
And so it's also focused on mental health.
And we're going to be joined by our next Google guest, Kat
Kuan, from the Android team.
So let's check out their demo.
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- Shareapy greets its users with a light green interface,
which has proved to be one of the most comforting colors that
can defuse anxiety and help us stay calm and refreshed.
After logging in and having a little update
about their current mood, users will be directed
to Shareapy's home page.
Here, they can choose the support group
that suits their needs in two ways, by topic and by date.
With a first [INAUDIBLE],, after choosing the topic of interest,
users will see support group sessions
related to that topic on different days.
In contrast, in the calendar section,
users can check to see which support groups take
place on a particular day.
All information in both ways includes the topics name,
the date and time of the meeting,
and the number of slots registered.
Users can also click on the heart in a corner
to turn this information to favorites if they
are unsure about participation.
In the activity section, we have three tabs
in turn showing all support groups they have joined,
are joining, and are about to join in a chronological order.
Before the meeting takes place 10 minutes,
this ongoing tab will appear a page
led into the virtual meeting room using Google Meet,
and automatically switch to the history section
after the meeting is completed.
The sites online support groups, Shareapy's community
is created in the form of one-way communication
to help users improve their mood even better.
Shareapy's community is a place to share the user's struggles
and fears, but not interact or listen to comments
or create controversy.
After expressing their feelings, it
allows users to customize their privacy
preference, private or public.
If users choose private, only they
can see their post, like an online journal.
Meanwhile, by setting it public, users can not only freely
release their emotions, but also receive sympathy
through support or appreciate replying instead of comments,
which help users avoid being hurt or offended
by negative opinions.
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ERICA HANSON: Hi Team Shareapy!
It's good to see you.
How are you doing?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, we are doing great.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, we're great.
ERICA HANSON: Good.
Good, I'm so happy to see you.
I know you're calling in from Vietnam.
And we also have Kat Kuan from the Android team.
It's good to see you, Kat.
KAT KUAN: Hey, Erica.
Hi, everyone.
It's so nice to meet you.
SPEAKER 2: Hi!
ERICA HANSON: Great.
We're happy to have you here.
Yeah, I would love for you to introduce yourself.
And I know you took a deeper look at the next couple
projects.
I would love to hear what questions you have.
KAT KUAN: Sure.
So, I'm Kat Kuan.
I'm a developer advocate on the Android team.
And I really loved your app.
Congratulations for being one of the winning teams.
I really appreciated how much thought you put into your app.
It just sounded like, in terms of all the design decisions
and thinking about how users would feel
as they use their app, I just felt like you did
a really good job with that.
So I wanted to ask you, you tackled a big challenge,
mental health.
How do you feel like this problem is best solved
through a mobile app?
SPEAKER 2: Hi!
[INAUDIBLE],, and I will answer your questions.
KAT KUAN: Sure.
SPEAKER 2: So there are two main reasons that we
wanted to do a mobile app.
The first one is nowadays, mobile phones
have become an essential part of our life.
Therefore, it is easy for everyone
to approach our solutions.
Secondly, as an online support group app,
Shareapy can solve the geographic distance problems
and save the cost of traditional [INAUDIBLE] meeting.
That's all.
Thank you.
KAT KUAN: That's awesome.
That's exactly why I also feel like it
would be a great solution as a mobile app.
I'd love to hear also more about the process of building
the app.
Was there a certain challenging technical decision
that you had to come across?
And what were some of the trade-offs
you had to decide between?
SPEAKER 1: OK, so the most challenging one
was reducing the backend for our application.
And Firebase is our back choice.
Which can pick our challenge development process
for fast implementation and development,
and also deployment.
[INAUDIBLE] access a means to handle
our application storage, database,
and also authentication.
Because Firebase, being our application backend,
there's some event [INAUDIBLE] functions that cannot fully
support this platform.
And we think this is [INAUDIBLE] we support when
developing our application.
We also think about Cloud Function
to handle these problems in the near future.
Yeah, that's all.
KAT KUAN: That sounds great.
And it sounds like you made a great decision.
SPEAKER 1: Thank you.
ERICA HANSON: That's great.
So we'd love to bring in a question from the live chat
and see if anyone has a question for your team.
And so we're going to be pulling that question in
as soon as we have one.
KAT KUAN: While we're waiting--
oh!
Go for it.
ERICA HANSON: Great, so how much time
did this solution take, including
the process of learning, planning, and development?
SPEAKER 1: OK so--
Yeah, for--
SPEAKER 3: You go, you go.
SPEAKER 1: OK, thanks.
When we receive the solution challenge
kickoff in our university, we just
had approximately like a month to be our application.
So it is a really challenging one to finish our application
and also deploy it in just a month.
And that is the reason why I explained to you that we have
to utilize something fast and something
convenient to be our application as Firebase or even Android
development.
KAT KUAN: Wow.
That's impressive to do that, all that in one month.
SPEAKER 1: Yes!
Yeah, this is a really fantastic experience that we had.
And also in that one month, we have
experienced something new, something
that we haven't done before.
And we can know ourselves better.
We can know what we can do and how far we can go.
KAT KUAN: Absolutely.
It sounds like a great learning experience
in terms of your strengths and pushing your bounds.
SPEAKER 1: Yes.
ERICA HANSON: Great, thanks for sharing.
I think have time for one more question if, Kat,
if you want to ask one more.
KAT KUAN: Sure.
I'm curious to know what your feedback has been from users.
Was there any--
SPEAKER 3: I'm sorry, can you repeat the question?
KAT KUAN: Oh, sure.
I'm just curious to know if there
was any particular feedback from users
that you found to be helpful.
SPEAKER 3: Yeah, we actually bring the solution
to [INAUDIBLE] University in our city.
And we have received feedback such
as we can add some music that's relaxing and stress relief.
And we can bring up some articles
that are related to mental health
to educate people, especially young people,
about mental health.
Like how to reduce stress.
And I think that it's really useful for us
to further develop the application in the future.
KAT KUAN: That's awesome.
Yeah, users are the best way to figure out
what features to add next.
SPEAKER 3: Yeah.
ERICA HANSON: Definitely.
It's a key part of the process.
So thank you so much for joining us.
We really enjoyed hearing about your project.
And thank you, Kat, for being here with us.
So thanks so much.
And we're really excited to see what
comes next on your journey.
So thanks, team.
Thank you.
SPEAKER 1: Yeah, thank you.