With many countries experiencing ageing populations, it’s worrying that a recent study found that 40% of elderly people, regularly report feeling lonely. Setting aside the toll on the individual, loneliness is closely linked to a number of conditions including coronary issues and dementia; all leading to a earlier mortality rates amongst this segment.
With smartphone usage is amongst people over 65 is around 60% and growing rapidly, we have a chance to use technology to allow people to connect with one another and create meaningful experiences for individuals suffering from loneliness.
This was the reason for building Amity, a solution to discover and meet friends of similar interests.
Follow the steps provided in Flutter documentation to install flutter in your machine.
Generate the flutter bundle using the command
flutter build apk --release
This will create an APK file which can be installed on your Android device.
Now execute the following commands to install APK file into your device:
cd amity/build/app/outputs/flutter-apk
flutter install