olddustysocksunderthecouch/MultiLingualFam-Android

Open source project to help people learn African languages # What's this about?? A few years back a project called Multi-Lingual Fam was launched with the goal of increasing awareness and promoting the use of African Languages amongst students at the University of Cape Town. This was achieved by putting up a new poster every day which contained a word with phrases demonstrating its use, together with an English translation, as well as an interactive component. Click here if you would like to see the posters we made. During the course of the campaign we realised that people were more likely to remember the phrase if, they were in a context where they could use the word/phrase shortly after learning it. For example: at a bus stop a word in isiXhosa like "Uyaphi?", meaning "where are you going?", would have a high chance of being used and remembered. Based on this insight, I started thinking... what if there was an app that could recommend words and phrases given a user's current location... The idea remained dormant until now! This project will always be open source and will be a good place to find sample code for building features into your own app. If you feel passionate about preserving African languages and culture or just want to help out please do get in touch. We have a totally open door policy. Anyone who helps will be acknowledge as a team member in the app. ### Sister Repo The accompanying Cloud Functions repo can be found here # "Steal-able Code" - Tracking a user's **location** while the App is in the background with a **Foreground** service see below for details - Cloud Functions for: - Updating location - once called, the Cloud function: 1. Updates database 2. Triggers a word suggestion (notification) if in range of a suggestion location - Updating/Adding a unique device token to the database (used for sending notifications) - Email Authentication with Firebase - Just copy over the `auth` folder and `activity_authentication.xml` layout into your project - Make the adjustments recommended by Android Studio - …