FIRST RESPONSE ONLINE

First Response Online is a communication and collaboration platform built to support first responders. It lets police officers, fire fighters, and paramedics share critical data with each other in near real-time. It supports Android, iPad, and PC and integrates with computer aided dispatch and GPS tracking. Units in the field can update their status, complete traffic stops, and even query state & federal databases all without using the radio. First Response Online is powered by Azure. In order to build a business that handles major life-threating incidents, they not only rely on Azure’s proven scalability and availability but also its breadth of features to get to market quickly. By using services like App Service, Azure SQL, CosmosDB & Azure Search, First Response Online can instead focus on empowering first responders instead of maintaining infrastructure.

Follow the deployment instructions to get you started.

Supported platforms: iOS, Android and Windows

The app architecture consists of two parts:

1. A Xamarin.Forms mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows.
2. ASP.NET MVC API.

Xamarin.Forms App

This project exercises the following platforms, frameworks or features:

• Xamarin.Forms
  • XAML
  • Bindings
  • Converters
  • Central Styles
  • Custom Renderers
  • Animations
  • IoC
  • Messaging Center
  • Custom Controls
  • Cross Plugins
  • Pages and Popups
• ASP.NET MVC
  • C# backend
  • WebAPI
  • Entity Framework
  • Power BI Embedded

Three platforms

The app targets three platforms:

• iOS
• Android
• Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • UWP supported only in Visual Studio, not Xamarin Studio

As of 13/01/2017, FRO features 79.9% code share (19.9% iOS / 21.7% Android / 19.6% Windows).

Licenses

This project uses some third-party assets with a license that requires attribution:

• Xamarin.Plugins: by James Montemagno
• ACR User Dialogs: by Allan Ritchie
• Xamarin.Forms Animation Helpers: by Javier Suárez
• Popup Page Plugin for Xamarin Forms: by Rotorgames
• Toasts Notification Plugin: by Adam Pedley

Screens

The app has the following screens:

• a auth screen
• a settings screen
• a main menu section to access to incidents and responders
• a detail map with incidents and responders
• a new ticket popup
• a identify popup
• a power bi popup

Clean and Rebuild

If you see build issues when pulling updates from the repo, try cleaning and rebuilding the solution.

Contributing

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.