Smart Walking Stick - Companion App 🦯

This is the React Native companion app for our first-year engineering Smart Walking Stick project. It connects via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to an ESP32-S3 to provide haptic and audio feedback for visually impaired users, and includes a Caregiver dashboard for remote monitoring.

🛠 Tech Stack

• Frontend: React Native (Expo Development Build)
• Hardware Comm: react-native-ble-plx (Bluetooth LE)
• Database & Auth: Firebase (Firestore & Firebase Auth)
• Mapping: react-native-maps & expo-location

👥 Setup Instructions for the Team

Since this app uses custom native code for Bluetooth, you cannot use standard Expo Go.

1. Clone the repo:

   git clone <YOUR_REPO_URL>
   cd SmartStickApp