About this app

First version of this application was launched in 2016 as HS Card. It was focused to create your digital card & send across to your contact.
There were many limitations in this application, some due to technology & some being first version.
This application is now totally revamped and renamed as Handshake and following features are added with older one already existing.
A) Design Card:-

Under this heading there are lot many functionalities
You can design your own card.
You can add Photos, Videos, colors & shape to your visiting cards.
There is a provision to add matter on back side of the card.
There is a section provided with ready to use templates. You can select template and edit it



B) Home Screen-

Once a visiting card is created it is visible to the set of people on home page. Principal of machine learning here implemented here.
Additionally you can set location where you want to represent yourself.
Set of people can be your customers, vendors, etc
Upon swiping right they can send connection invites to you.
Such requests are then available in Inbox. Once you accept it, your contacts card is available in card bank.
You can then chat with him through messenger, set meetings, call/send quotations etc.

C) Profile: -

This is again a new feature added which has got little important functionality.
You can add a professional picture of yours.
Overview-There is an overview section where you can choose your business category, brief about you, your skills, and your educational qualifications.
Work & History – There is a work & history section to add your achievements, Award & Recognition & Work Exp
One more section is added to add Testimonials & reviews, your customers may add reviews & rate your work as well.

D) UI/UX is totally revamped considering latest trend into the market. Now application looks beautiful, sleek and with the very differnt user experience.

The HS Cards is a cloud-based mobile application in which user can create & manage their digital visiting card.
With changing technology and era of smart phones it is difficult to keep carrying physical copies of the business cards all the time for all the meeting, events and exhibition. Also people find it difficult to manage the repository of their client’s visiting cards.
In today’s world most of the corporate houses are decentralized with large number of workforce and would like to seek control on its employees which seems difficult with physical hard copies and no integration with technology.
HS Cards: Digital Visiting Card application will help in sorting out these problems by creating your digital visiting card in the application itself; also it gives a facility to send the digital visiting card anyone anywhere in the world free of cost just by entering the mobile number of the recipient, if the recipient is also having HS Card application then you will receive recipients digital visiting card post acceptance of your digital visiting card by the recipient. If recipient is not the user of HS Cards then the your digital visiting card will be sent via text message with web link which will redirect the recipient to your digital visiting card. The text message is free of cost and will be delivered via HS Cards server and no carrier charges will applied to the sender.
With HS Cards “Card Bank” feature user can store their connection's digital visiting cards in a systematical way, also user can scan physical cards and keep it in the card bank. The best part of the card bank is it doesn’t utilize the phone memory for storing the cards; instead all the storage is done on cloud without overburdening the application on the phone memory.
HS Cards have 3 different categories for digital visiting cards: Casual, Business & Professional.
• Visiting Cards:
These are free digital visiting cards. Anyone can create their casual digital visiting card with the pre-defined templates given in the application. Template repository gets refreshed from time to time.

New features

Bug fixes and enhancement

App Permissions

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
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 the user's contacts data.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to record audio.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows a calling application which manages it own calls through the self-managed ConnectionService APIs.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows an application to write the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.