An Android Emergency Panic Button Prototype Application with SMS Alert Feature

An Android-based smartphone is able to make it easier for users in daily activities in various applications and can be accessed anywhere as long as is connected to the internet. One of them is when the user is experiencing an emergency event or disaster. In the face of this emergency, some people will experience a panicked situation. In the face of panic, people tend to be confused about seeking help such as looking for emergency service telephone numbers or asking for help from those closest to them. Therefore, an Android-based mobile application was designed and built to perform emergency actions with just the press of a button. This one button can do many things, such as calling emergency service numbers, sounding alarms, recording voices or asking for help from closest persons by using short message service (SMS) alerts which include an emergency message and a link to the current location of the sending user. This application has been successfully designed, built, tested and evaluated. The result of evaluation is 88.55% which indicates that respondents strongly agree to use this application in an emergency situation.