btk/aac-native

Multilangual react native AAC application for autism or non-verbal spectrum.

AAC Native

Multilangual react native AAC application for autism or non-verbal spectrum. AAC (Augmentative Alternative Communication) apps help people with autism, special needs or non-verbals. This app is created with picture exchange communication system (PECS) theory.

The Picture Exchange Communication System, or PECS, allows people with little or no communication abilities to communicate using pictures. People using PECS are taught to approach another person and give them a picture of a desired item in exchange for that item.

See the published Android app here.

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This project was bootstrapped with Create React Native App.

Below you'll find information about performing common tasks. The most recent version of this guide is available here.

Available Scripts

If Yarn was installed when the project was initialized, then dependencies will have been installed via Yarn, and you should probably use it to run these commands as well. Unlike dependency installation, command running syntax is identical for Yarn and NPM at the time of this writing.

npm start

Runs your app in development mode.

Open it in the Expo app on your phone to view it. It will reload if you save edits to your files, and you will see build errors and logs in the terminal.

Sometimes you may need to reset or clear the React Native packager's cache. To do so, you can pass the --reset-cache flag to the start script:

npm start -- --reset-cache
# or
yarn start -- --reset-cache

npm test

Runs the jest test runner on your tests.

npm run ios

Like npm start, but also attempts to open your app in the iOS Simulator if you're on a Mac and have it installed.

npm run android

Like npm start, but also attempts to open your app on a connected Android device or emulator. Requires an installation of Android build tools (see React Native docs for detailed setup). We also recommend installing Genymotion as your Android emulator. Once you've finished setting up the native build environment, there are two options for making the right copy of adb available to Create React Native App:

Using Android Studio's adb

1. Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.
2. Open Genymotion and navigate to Settings -> ADB. Select “Use custom Android SDK tools” and update with your Android SDK directory.

Using Genymotion's adb

1. Find Genymotion’s copy of adb. On macOS for example, this is normally /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/.
2. Add the Genymotion tools directory to your path (instructions for Mac, Linux, and Windows).
3. Make sure that you can run adb from your terminal.

npm run web

React Native is awesome, with the help of react-native-web now our project can be rendered on the browser and we can use run a development server while building the application, no need of a phone or an emulator.

aac-native's Issues

🥇 Hacktoberfest: Add language translation for symbol files

Hello!

This app is an open source project, I work on my free time. And the app is published in google play. It is totally free. Basically what this app does is; lists bunch of symbols and people with autism use this app to communicate with their surroundings.

That symbols triggers TTS on press.

But since most of the people with autism can only understand their native language, it is really important for this app to support multiple languages.

If you are a bilingual and want to contribute to this app, you can submit your translations of this app's symbol data.

How To Submit A Translation?

• For this project
• Duplicate file /data/card_en.json with your language code (eg: /data/card_es.json)
• Start translating the cards.

Only translate the title and phrase properties, other properties are used for symbol images etc.

	{
		"type": "card",
		"title": "Grandparents",
		"slug": "grandparents",
		"parents": [
			"people"
		],
		"phrases": [
			{
				"symbol": "hand",
				"phrase": "I love my grandparents"
			},
			{
				"symbol": "hand",
				"phrase": "I want to see my grandparents"
			}
		]
	}

So the properties needed to be translated are these;

	{
		"type": "card",
		"title": "**TRANSLATE_THIS**",
		"slug": "grandparents",
		"parents": [
			"people"
		],
		"phrases": [
			{
				"symbol": "hand",
				"phrase": "**TRANSLATE_THIS**"
			},
			{
				"symbol": "hand",
				"phrase": "**TRANSLATE_THIS**"
			}
		]
	}

I translated English to Turkish and it usually takes about 10 minutes if you are fast at typing :) Think of the people using this app will appreciate you! And also get your hacktoberfest credits in 👍

Current translation status

• English @btk (done)
• Turkish @btk (done)
• Portuguese (Brazil) @rafa-acioly (done) #9
• Mandarin @aaronmak (done) #8
• French @romainwn (done) #13
• Indonesian @darrylsepeda (done) #5
• Vietnamese @viettrung9012 (done) #6
• Dutch @oscodeproject (done) #7
• German @Wachiwi (done) #14
• Italian @verginer (done) #10
• Russian @boccob (done) #19
• Hindi @utkarsh-shekhar (done) #15
• Thai @rootEnginear (done) #17
• Slovak @Hejty (done) #18
• Spanish @sophiekoonin (done) #21
• Ukrainian @nikitakorba (done) #22
• Norwegian @wkillerud (done) #23
• Hebrew @YonatanHanan (done) #24
• Portuguese @BrunoM24 (done) #28
• Romanian @ialixandroae (done) #34
• Polish @sorija (done) #35
• Cantonese (You can do this!)
• Greek @june07 (done) #37
• Punjabi @june07 (done) #36
• Arabic @Tarektouati (doing)
• Taiwanese Mandarin @janeliutw (done) #40
• Another language.. (You can do this!)

If you would like to, write a comment and the language you are going to be translating and I add you to the list not to create any conflicts.

Google play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dreamoriented.leeloo&hl=en
I will soon publish it to app store also.

Google play link

As mentionned in #2 , the app is published in Google Play. In my opinion, it would be nice to update the README with a link to it.

[edit: fix typo]

fontFamily "rubik" is not a system font and has not been loaded through Font.loadAsync. and Warning: componentWillMount has been renamed, and is not recommended for use. See https://fb.me/react-unsafe-component-lifecycles for details.

fontFamily "rubik" is not a system font and has not been loaded through Font.loadAsync. and Warning: componentWillMount has been renamed, and is not recommended for use. See https://fb.me/react-unsafe-component-lifecycles for details.

These are the errors that I am getting.

Missing License Information

This repository doesn't have a LICENSE file.