Disclaimer: This app was created in order to quickly solve an urgent problem during the COVID-19 Lockdown and not for showcasing coding best practices :)
I developed this mobile app called 13033 using Google's Flutter (in less than 6 hours) for simplyfying the process of registering your movement (by sending the required SMS to 13033) when leaving your house during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece. The app can be found on Play Store.
The app was also featured in an article on a greek news site and providing some publicity. Now, after less than a month, it has reached more than 6.5K downloads and helped many people in their daily life.
- The user first has to fill in her name and adress which is stored locally on the device. No personal data leaves the phone and the app is GDPR compliant.
- On the next screen, the user selects the option for your movement. Once the selection is made, the messaging application gets launced with prefilled the generated message.
- The design is simple on purpose; large buttons and clear layout to avoid any possible confusions or misinterpretations.
- The option of automatically sending the SMS without entering the SMS app was rejected because of the additional permissions that the app would have needed and often scare people.
