Mobile application on mental wellness

Abstract

This project was undertaken considering the growing concern in individual mental health during the pandemic in Singapore. Due to the tightening of safe distancing measure and rising uncertainties in future planning, many were facing difficulties in managing the turbulence of worries and anxiety. As such, the author was inspired to create a mobile application that would help the society to be more literate in mental health concerns and better equipped to handle individual emotions via two channels – education and proven meditative practices. The mobile application was developed using Android Studio (4.1.1) with the use of Flutter framework and Dart programming language. The 3 key features implemented were Article, Meditate, and Journal. The Article microservice gathered a collection of mental wellness articles from various reliable psychological feed to give users a comprehensive and varied mental wellness resource. The Meditate microservice employed a very simple user interface to guide users through a breathing exercise with music. The Journal microservice would guide users to be more aware of their mental activities using daily journal prompts. This report will detail the design and implementation of these features and potential future iterations. The mobile application aims to provide a knowledge base for people to become more interested and accepting with mental health topics, and hopefully it would also help people to tide through the emotional weariness from the pandemic.