Medication Reminder (again)

[Markuus872]

I want to create an application where you can manage medication for my final year project but I'm having many difficulties.

One of the difficulties I am having is registering a medication, allowing me to choose whether it is daily (how many hours to take the medicine, if it is once a day or enter specific times if it is only once a day), weekly, monthly or annually.

Another difficulty is that I can't use the alarm extension and have MIT itself handle notifications and not use the phone's clock application.

My last difficulty is making it so that the person can go to the application and change the medication data (for example: if the person now, instead of having to take it at 10:00, now has to take it at 11:00)

[ABG]

You might look at the Google Calendar API links in

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Play with Google Calendar, and take note of the difference between defining rules for generating future events and the individually generated events.

If you have not yet done so, also study the Clock and Date and Time Picker components, for how to select and express dates and times.

[Markuus872]

I want to create an application a medication manager for my final year project but I'm having many difficulties and I don't know where to start, I already tried to search some videos on the topic but none seem to be helpful to me.

The app would consist in basically an agenda/calendar where you can add your medications and choose whether it is daily (then it would open a chat where you can say the interval of hours to take the medicine, if it is once a day or enter specific hour if it is only once a day), weekly, monthly or annually.

The app would have to handle notifications itself and run on the background and not use the phone's clock/alarm application like Taifun's alarm extension does.

And it would needs to have an screen where you can edit the medication, like if you spelled the name wrong and you need to change, to change the hours the notification will appear, etc...

I really need help for this project, If you could send me some tutorials on youtube explaning some things I mencioned that I need to do on the app, It would be great since I can't seem to find it... Thanks.

[vknow360]

I'll give you a little hint.
Every phone has a default calendar app which has this alarm feature.
Find a way to make Calendar app work for you.

[Markuus872]

That didn't really help me. I need to be able to make everything on the app (select how regularly the medication has to be taken, to store it in a database and to get the information from the database soo it can be edited.)

[TIMAI2]

Did you try this alarm extension ?

[FREE] Alarm Extension

After having published a first extension and after what was commented by the leading users, about what had to change in the extension, I published it again with the recommended changes. The extension now complies with the nomeclature instructions indicated in I also try to adapt it to what is indicated in Is it novel? Has your type of extension been done before by other extension developers. Do we really need it again? What is different/unique about it, when compared with the other simil…

[Markuus872]

I tried to test the aia from that extension but when I tried to built it, it gave me an error

Also I want the app to work more os less like the following printscreens, I hope it's possible.

[vknow360]

@Markuus872

it gave me an error

What was the error?

[Markuus872]

Wait, now when I tried to build the app again, now the error is gone.

[Markuus872]

Can anyone teach me how I can make a dropdown list that depending on what the user chooses (whether it is once a day, x times a day, weekly, monthly or yearly) will change the fields that will or will not appear for the user ?

[TIMAI2]

@Markuus872

a dropdown list that depending on what the user chooses

Making a dropdown list is fairly straightforward, but your above statement does not make it clear as to what you want to do?

The simplest approach is to use a spinner:

Spinner Setup

The spinner component is an odd thing, and requires some rigour to get control of it. This is how I usually setup a spinner so that all the selections are available every time. I use a button to set the selection and call the spinner dropdown, and "hide" the spinner by setting its height and width to 1 pixel each. If placed inside a centred horizontal arrangement, the spinner should be invisible in all themes. Note: something has recently changed with the spinner, it seems you can now set heig…

There are extensions available that provide "popup" menus, but i would stick to the basics for now...

If your dropdown list contains for example: daily,twice a day, weekly, monthly, what more do you need to do after an item has been selected?

[Markuus872]

Sorry I took this long to answear, what I wanted is after that has been selected, it would affect how many times the notification will be sent to the user when he submits the medication.

[Markuus872]

How can I make a drop-down menu to select dosing frequency (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) and depending on the selection, you can show additional fields to set dosing times and also make the notification time respect what the user selected?

[Ramon]

Have you tried a spinner component and its AfterSelecting(selection) event? Based on the "selection" you can define different logics.

[Markuus872]

but how can I make it exactly? Do you have a printscreen of the blocks needed?

[Ramon]

Well, as you have previously indicated, here is a link to a tutorial on spinner:

Spinner Setup

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[Markuus872]

I need help with something else now, and I'm not sure how to describe it well because English is not my first language.

I need to set up a way to enter the hours and make them repeat according to what is selected in the Spinner (If it is daily, weekly, montly, etc...). Additionally, I want the option to select weekdays to only appear if the "Weekly" option is chosen in the Spinner.

Also, could you guide me on how to store this data in TinyDB?

Here is the blocks that I have currently and the .aia if its necessary
HealthMate_versao4.aia (86.4 KB)

[Markuus872]

I still haven't figure out how to turn this into a medication reminder, i don't know how to store the values in the DB or how to use Itoo to make this application run in the background.

[Markuus872]

I have this fiels and I want to know how do I store them in TinyDB and how to set a notification system with them while using Itoo to make the app run in the background, can someone help me? Here are the screen that I want to save and the blocks I have currently.

[Taifun]

@Markuus872

I have this fiels and I want to know how do I store them in TinyDB

Do the tutorials to learn how to work with lists and TinyDB

@Markuus872

how to set a notification system with them while using Itoo to make the app run in the background

The simple solution would be to use the alarmmanager extension App Inventor Extensions: Alarm Manager | Pura Vida Apps it is just to use one method to set a repeating alarm...

However you said earlier

@Markuus872

I can't buy the paid version because I'm short on money and I don't want to spend it on a project just to finish my school year.

So let me suggest you to reduce the requirements and simplify your project.. just use the free alarm extension App Inventor Extensions: Alarm | Pura Vida Apps and set an alarm to take the next medicament... and after getting the alarm, opem the app and set the alarm to take the next medicament, etc

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