Diabetic monitoring app

Diabetic monitoring app

An application that simplifies the lifestyle of people with diabetes through improved control of blood glucose. The mobile app reminds a user when it’s needed to measure a glucose level, to eat according to the diabetes meal plan and schedule, and to take a dose of insulin, calculated on the basis of the consumed carbohydrates. Depending on the regularly filled-in food and blood sugar data, it shows statistics to analyze the dynamics of changes according to a user’s treatment plan.

Core team: 1 PM, 1 Designer, 2 Android developer, 1 QA-engineer

Technologies: Kotlin, Koin, Android SDK, Navigation Components, Room DB, Retrofit 2, MVVM patterns, Kaspresso (UI test).

 

Objective

To develop a handy application for people with diabetes. It should allow them to keep records of their blood sugar level, note the contents of every meal with automated calculation of its Bread Units, and estimate the required dose of insulin.

Features

Insulin dose calculator

The app automatically calculates the required insulin depending on the scheduled meal plan or consumed amount of carbs each mealtime.

Meal plan compilation

According to the specific amount of bread units per portion or carbohydrate targets for each meal, a user can form his/her own meal plan for a day.

Menu formation

The app allows a user to create a diet menu consisting of custom and built-in meal options, based on the specified amount of bread units or carbohydrate grams.

Reminders

A user pre-arranges the schedule according to which gets notifications on taking blood sugar level measurements, meals, and insulin injections.

Bread Units counting

Automated build-in BUs counting function allows a user to compare completely different types of food to each other and measure the impact they have on the diet.

Delivered results

The SDH team has created an application that simplifies the lifestyle of people with diabetes through improved control of blood glucose. The mobile app reminds a user when it’s needed to measure a glucose level, to eat according to the diabetes meal plan and schedule, and to take a dose of insulin, calculated on the basis of the consumed carbohydrates. Depending on the regularly filled-in food and blood sugar data, it shows statistics to analyze the dynamics of changes according to a user’s treatment plan.