This repo includes the source code of the project InTouch.
InTouch is a mobile app developed for Android devices. The app has a simple approach of saving contact information of the people you get in touch with at events or meetups, in an easy and simple way, just by scanning the business card of the person you meet, and saving the person's name, email, phone, a note about how you met (to help you memorize them people!!!). The app's core feature is scanning business cards and populating the details on them to the respective fields. All the contacts that you save using InTouch, are stored in your phone's contacts local database with your other contacts, and can be accessed from your default contacts app.
InTouch is a simply designed app that helps you stay in touch with the people that you meet, and want them to be in your network.
The Main Activity
The below screenshot is the first activity (screen), which is started when the app is launched (except for the onboarding experience, that is displayed only at the first time the app was installed). Is shows the list of contacts that you have stored in your phone. This app makes use of Android's content providers to get the contacts list stored in your phone. The app is designed to show only contacts that have email addresses, meaning that if you have a contact that doesn't have an email address then it won't show up on the list (NOTE: the contacts that are shown in the below screenshot are fake as well as all of their information, including mine !! ). Additionally, the contacts' info shown in this activity includes only name, email and phone number, which makes the app simple and gives a quick outline of the contact.
The Search Dialog at the top of the screen helps you find a contact from the list quickly. Also, the "Plus" floating button at the bottom of the screen helps you add a new Touch (new contact); when pressed, it will take you to the new contact activity.
The New Contact Activity
The below screenshot represents the new contact activity that will start when you press the "Plus" floating point or choose "Create Contact" from the drop-down menu. Again, for simplicity, this activity has inputs for name, email, phone number, a note, and business card's picture; you can add more info to the contact by editing it using the contact app after adding it. You can add a new contact by scanning a business card, choosing a business card from the phone's image gallery, or by typing the contact's info in the respective fields. After filling in the fields, you can add the contact by just pressing the "Plus" floating buttom.
The app uses implicit intents to store contacts to the phone, by using the phone's default contacts app, which means that all your contacts are in one place!
The Contact's Edit Activity
Using InTouch, You can click on any of your contacts from the list in the main activity to see details about that contact; when you do this, the below activity starts. This activity provides some feature actions, like: sharing the contact, editing it or deleting it. The share button in the action bar allows you to share some information about the contact with other contacts, using any of the apps that have the share action, which you have installed in the phone, like the Messaging app. The delete button allows you to delete the selected contact and all its information definitely from your phone !!
The floating button at the bottom right side of the screen allows you to edit the selected contact using the phone's default contacts app. Once done editing the contact.
You can try InTouch in two different ways:
- One, by downloading InTouch from the Google Play store.
- Two, by cloning the source code of this project, and importing the app to Android Studio. You would need your own google-services credentials.
- Three, by downloading the apk file included in this repo under the name of InTouch_debug.apk (this is a debug apk) and then install it in your phone.
As InTouch focuses on user contacts, so it needs permission to access user contacts stored locally in the phone.
InTouch is pretty simple (Actually that's what the app is intended for, Simplicity!!); However, a couple of features make the app more enjoyable. First, the integration of a search bar to allow you to search for contacts in the contacts list; for this purpose, we used the Android Search Dialog, which was really useful with some cool features. Second, we used Google's ML Kit, Machine learning for mobile developers kit, to recognize the text in business cards, when scanning them and retrieve the contact's information from them.