About this app

'iSafeGuard' is a personal safety app for women and young girls! It is our tribute to our young girls and women who face immense challenges to live safely in today’s world.


FEATURES
This community-based app is designed to help women and young girls in unsafe situations to:
* Let their friends and guardians track their location when they are on the move.
* Send distress calls (SOS messages) with location details to preset phone numbers of their friends and guardians.
* Alert iSafeGuard volunteers (users who have opted to help their community) near them to reach out for help.


'iSafeGuard' is brought to you by LateraLogics, a Chennai-based technology start-up founded by Arjun who has the following achievements to his credits:
- First-Prize winner in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s 'App Inventor App Contest' conducted worldwide in 2012
- First-Prize winner in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s 'App Inventor Bug Finding Contest' conducted worldwide in 2013
- Winner of the 'National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement' (for Computer Technology) instituted by the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India, for 2014


Some of the other popular apps from LateraLogics include:
- 'Ez School Bus Locator' - a school bus and child locator app
- 'iRobot' - an innovative remote-control app to control Lego Mindstorms NXT robots in the most intuitive ways
- 'Scribbly' - an intuitive app that lets you scribble your feelings and express yourself in the most natural way to the world through your mail, messenger, or social media network


Here are the links to a few articles featuring Arjun and his achievements:
- The Hindu (Delhi Edition): http://goo.gl/GAMtp3
- Deccan Chronicle: http://goo.gl/E3vdiz
- Entrepreneur India Magazine: http://goo.gl/zEUCsS
- Economic Times: http://goo.gl/Vijriq
- Youth Incorporated Magazine: http://goo.gl/aYz1vY
- India Today (Aspire) Magazine: http://goo.gl/xsdz5k
- Insight Walk: http://goo.gl/DpQH4k
- YourStory: http://goo.gl/azJv6q
- NDTV HEADS UP show: http://goo.gl/Ji9sBj
- Entrepreneur India Magazine: http://goo.gl/TcEMp7


Please check www.LateraLogics.com for more information.


NOTE
For a white-labelled 'iSafeGuard' - personal safety app solution (customized version) for your school, college, or company, please write to arjun@LateraLogics.com.

New features

- Minor Enhancements

App Permissions

Allows applications to call into AccountAuthenticators.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.