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Safety for women is one of the most pressing issues of our time that should have been a fundamental, undeniable concept for any civilized society centuries ago. Denying fundamental rights to safety, personal choices, freedom to pursue whatever lifestyle they wish to, sexual and physical empowerment are not new issues — but have strangely not managed to be eradicated even in today’s times.

A lot of people have been crying out loud for better ways to ensure women’s security and make things better for them. And it seems like, that people are definitely trying to do; something about it!

Now finally, there’s an app that promises to add its drop into the ocean to ensure safety for women that’s completely designed for the general public.

Here’s everything you need to know:

The App Itself

The need for a women safety and panic alert app is, unfortunately, increasing in the current societies across the world. One of the biggest roles that have been played in ensuring the safety of women, has to be the digital transformation and advancement in technology. Especially in the world where 3 out of every5 people have smartphones and use dozens of mobile apps every day.

Our app is an exceedingly useful alert and response solution based on the tracking of the location and sharing the coordinates with local authorities.

Let’s quickly take a look at the app’s best features and functions

• There’s a one-time registration that requires the user(s) to fill out their details and that of the emergency contacts.
• You need not even open the app to run it. On the mobile device even shaking the phone thrice will trigger the app to register it as an emergency.
• Immediately, your emergency contacts, as well as the local security authorities, will be notified that you are possibly in an emergency situation along with exact GPS coordinates.
• Simultaneously, the police control room/local authorities are also notified so that they can immediately take action, which will be ridiculously fast since they have your constant tracking location and can monitor your location in real life.
• The location of the emergency will be shared by the police/authority admin to the security officer nearest to the emergency location.
• Works 24/7

Some Unique Points

• The app doesn’t require internet data/WiFi to work. In most emergency situations, users will not be in a position to have internet working or switch it on or wait for a signal, this is a unique factor the app.
• The user can add a local crime/alert in the app so that people around that place can view the alert and take action.
• The app has a feature to view alerts on the map with time, date, and pictures.
• The user can also make use of a feature called “follow me” in an uncertain or suspicious place. This will leave breadcrumbs of the user’s location for the authorities to map.
• The users can use a feature called “Follow me” to leave breadcrumbs of the
• Real-time updates.
• Works on all mobile networks.
• Works on virtually all smartphones with GPS in them, which almost all smartphones already do.

Why Did We Choose Flutter To Make This App?

Whenever we’re building an app that is supposed to be targeting the vast majority of the people, the best development solution that comes to mind is building a Cross-Platform App. And when it comes to choosing the best cross-platform mobile app development frameworks, many app owners and developers must be wondering why we have chosen Flutter over various mobile frameworks like React Native, Angular Js, or Xamarin.

Let’s find out why

1. Multi-Platform Portability

The first thing you need to check is the cross-platform compatibility of the app development framework. And for an app like this, you always want to go to the framework that makes sure that your app will smoothly run on a different platform to reach a broader audience.

While Flutter, React and Xamarin will seamlessly run on both iOS and Android, these three have a specific set of plugins that permit them to run on different platforms.

However, with the launch of HummingBird on 7th May 2019, Google has added web support to the Flutter mobile applications that use a web view control and can load and display the content dynamically without rewriting the content.

2. Native Appearance

The native look and feel of an app is something that Flutter is promoting as its USP. While the performance is the sign of React Native Development is available for the world to peek in and explore, the reason why we use the Flutter framework is its feature to use the device’s native functionalities without using any 3rd party component.

3. Strong backend

Firebase is at the heart of Flutter. Firebase is Google’s mobile platform that provides a bunch of services, from cloud storage to real-time databases and Hosting & many more. Firebase is the absolute key to app success.

In a nutshell, Firebase is a collection of essential tools that can be complied with automated tools to make the app development process simple and ensure speedy delivery.

4. Multiple IDE Support

No matter how complex and broad you want your application, Flutter for app development has recently become a top choice of developers. WHY?

The reason being, Flutter provides excellent support for several IDEs and offers more comfort to the developers while developing a cross-platform application.

Usually, when developers start working with an IDE, they never want to switch to another IDE, so that’s where Flutters take the momentum and provides access to a massive number of IDEs including Android Studio, VC Code, IntelliJ, and many more.

Our Experience With The App

Building an app that is responsible for the safety of the users and ensures that the app will help them in emergency situations is a lot of responsibilities on the app and on the developers as well. An app like this can be very complex handling so many different user responses at the same time.

But, then our initial approach of building the app in Flutter made the challenges very easy and provided the support needed for building such an application.

Let’s discuss some of the ways how Flutter helped us in the journey of building this app

1. Configuration and Setup

Flutter’s setup process is much more straight and aligned as compared to React Native. Flutter has the benefits of automated system problem check-ups, something which is missed in a lot of frameworks to a great extent.

2. Improved Productivity

Developer’s productivity is the key to building apps faster. To achieve this, it’s very important to focus on app development without any kind of distractions.

The hot reload feature in the framework lets any changes made in the code of the app instantly visible to the developers on their screen without having to recompile the code, which in turn saves a lot of time and eventually improves the overall productivity.

3. Testing Support

The greatest way to get feedback on the code is by writing tests. There is always a testing work-frame associated with every mature technology to create unit, integration, and UI testing.

Flutter has great documentation and a rich set of testing features to test apps at the unit, widget, and integration level.

Flutter Platform — App Performance

Being a mobile app development company, we have had the experience of using most of the cross-platform tools and technology like React Native, Xamarin, and many more. And since flutter is still fairly new to the developer’s community, it was a chance that we took with Google-backed Flutter. And the results are beyond expectations.

It’s been more than a year since the app was launched and made public. The app is being used by thousands of live users and the performance it has shown since the first day has made us certain of the choice of building it in Flutter. The best of all is that the maintenance is not stress anymore, due to the single code-base, it becomes fairly easy to maintain the app on multiple platforms by just maintaining one set of code.

Need I say, Flutter is the best cross-platform mobile application framework. Give it a try!

Conclusion

Building an app that ensures the safety and security of its users comes with a ton of responsibilities. There is no room for any errors. In such scenarios, choosing the right development approach is the most important thing.

One must thoroughly research and then should come to a conclusion on why a specific technology or platform is the best suitable for all the key features and specifications. Flutter, in this case, has proven to be the best suitable framework which not only fulfills the technical requirement but also exceeds in a bunch of areas.

Our experience of using Flutter as our driving technology for mobile app development has been phenomenal. We have been building apps for more than 10 years now, we have seen and used a lot of cross-platform frameworks. But need I say Flutter is hands-down the best cross-platform mobile app development framework.

After using Flutter since it’s inception, we think it’s safe to say that it’s the future of mobile development. If not, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.

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