Development of an Android Application for Tracking Post COVID Symptoms

Abstract

Patients with COVID-19 generally recover within a fortnight or a month. However, some patients, even those with milder types of the disease, experience symptoms after they have recovered. Symptoms of COVID-19 might continue for months at a time. The virus affects the heart, brain, and lungs, perhaps leading to long-term health-related problems. Thus, it is critical to keep track of any post-COVID symptoms to prevent further complications. Keeping that in focus, two apps are created to monitor these symptoms in people who have recovered from COVID 19 with comorbidities includes Diabetes, coronary artery diseases and hypertension. In this project, the patient's data was obtained from selected hospitals in Pune, and stored in Google Firebase. This data was used while making the backend algorithms for the apps. Android Studio and Figma were used to design and develop these apps. One app will be used by the patients, which allows them to post their health conditions if they are suffering with symptoms of post COVID complications and another App will be used by the investigators to monitor these symptoms and provides an access to post the advises pertaining to the patient's health condition. The biggest challenge is with patients suffering from conditions like hypertension, diabetes and other chronic illness which can be fatal if not monitored and addressed, specially for the elderly to frequently visit the hospital just for monitoring. The prime objective of the app developed in this work is to provide monitoring and to prevent post COVID complications and save the life of patients who have recovered from COVID and already have underlying issues. These apps allow researchers/Doctors to contact the patients personally to counsel them against the symptoms they are experiencing. Both these apps were tested in Android 8 Oreo and are functional in Android 8 Oreo, Android 9 Pie, Android 10, and Android 11 supported devices. These applications will soon be deployed in the Play Store.