MayDay alerts your friends when you're in trouble. If you are unable to make a call or text, you can trigger a MayDay alert. If you are on the run from a psychopath or have fallen and can't get up, MayDay will transmit your GPS coordinates to your network of contacts. We hope to build support for peripheral devices.
TAKE TIME to set-up MayDay somewhere safe and quiet
Create a plan with your contacts so that they are PREPARED to ACT
CHECK you are ready and that your mobile phone has credit and battery
ACTIVATE MayDay in an emergency by rapidly pressing the phone's power button
Your network will receive an SMS and regular updates of your location helping them to ACT FAST
The MayDay project is a fork of PanicButton which is an initiative of Amnesty International in collaboration with key advisors and partners including Frontline Defenders, iilab and the engine room.
Homalyn Dakers lives in Brooklyn, NY. She has an extensive 14 year background in the telecommunications industry working with various platforms. She assumed many roles within Fortune 100 Verizon Communications such as subject matter expert, training coordinator, project manager and operational analyst. She studied Early Childhood Education in Manhattan and has 8 nieces and nephews.
John has over 10 years technology experience and has worked for The National Academies of Science, earned a Masters Degree in Biotechnology from American University and worked in app development for Healthcare for 3 1/2 years.
I'm a Manhattan based Graphic Designer with many freelance clients. I also teach graphic design applications at numerous colleges in Manhattan where I cover in detail many Adobe programs as well as have my own freelance clients. I teach and am highly skilled in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Color Theory, Advanced Photoshop, Advanced Flash animation, Advanced Illustrator as well as portfolio design.
You need an Android phone with a minimum version of 2.3.3
Some of the wearable technologies are not fully documented. It becomes helpful to identify bluetooth traffic to tie events to. For instance, we want to know what bluetooth signals are transmited when the device's power button in pressed. Here is a stackoverflow post about bluetooth sniffing on Android.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23877761/sniffing-logging-your-own-android-bluetooth-traffic
There are several resources available for wearable technologies on the Android Developer Portal
https://developer.android.com/training/building-wearables.html
Gear and Gear Fit are different. Unfortunetly Samsung has multiple wearable SDKs specific for different devices
SDK Resource http://www.javafind.net/gate.jsp?q=/library/324/Samsung_Mobile_SDK_1.5/Docs/API/allclasses-noframe.html
Uses a Samsung developed SDK called CUP SDK. http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-fit/development/samsung-gear-fit-sdk-available-t2872803
The most stable Gear Fit github project so far. https://github.com/sert1m/GearFitWeather
For Gear you will need the Tizen SDK for Wearable and Possibly Samsung Accessory SDK http://developer.samsung.com/gear
See the notes to build your own APK
This app was developed in preparation for a Hackathon to prevent cyberstalking held January 30-31, 2015
Additional enhancements are welcome!
We proposed enhancements outlined in our wire frame documentation.
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Record and SMS a 30 second recording
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SOS vibration read receipt confirmation
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Improved wristband integration
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Secret messaging
John Shultz
john dot g. shultz AT G M A I L dot com