Abstract
The unusual circumstances of life threatening situations are increasing day by day for a person who has an ordinary life. The purpose of application “Save Me” is to help the person during the emergency times by informing the emergency contacts that are entered in the application. The application provides different media sources through which the user’s emergency contacts will be informed – Phone, Text Messages and Emails. The user can enter any number of contacts that he desires to inform during the emergency situation when the application is activated. The user can set a personal message or select any of the pre-defined messages as their personal message. The user has an option of changing the emails and the text messages from 1 minute (the default time interval) to any of 30 seconds, 2/3/4/5 minutes. The user has an option of disabling means of informing the emergency contacts – User can disable any/all of Calls, Emails or Text Messages. If the user has the chance of capturing a photo, the user has an option of capturing a photo through a custom camera application that has been developed for the application where the user can zoom in/out and also tapping anywhere on the screen will capture the image. The image will be saved in the user’s device and after that the captured image will be emailed to all the contact emails that are entered by the user in the application. The emails and the text messages will have the user’s device last known location i.e. the last known nearest address (fetched from Google Maps) and the hyperlink that on tapping/clicking will open the appropriate Maps application configured if seen on the cell phone otherwise on computer it will open the Google Maps website with the coordinates of the entered location. This helps the emergency contact get the driving directions or the nearest way of reaching the user. The application has been designed to support all the Android Operating versions from Android 2.2 to latest Android 4.3 (API 9 – 18). The application currently has been designed keeping the cell phones and the tablets are a part of future implementation.