--- title: ResearchStack Case Study | daily.dev description: Touchlab built ResearchStack, an Android port of Apple's ResearchKit, to extend digital medical research capabilities to over 85 million Android users in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/researchstack-case-study-pwavlrywb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ResearchStack Case Study | daily.dev og:description: Touchlab built ResearchStack, an Android port of Apple's ResearchKit, to extend digital medical research capabilities to over 85 million Android users in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/researchstack-case-study-pwavlrywb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PwAVlRywb.png og:image:alt: ResearchStack Case Study og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ResearchStack Case Study **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Touchlab built ResearchStack, an Android port of Apple's ResearchKit, to extend digital medical research capabilities to over 85 million Android users in the US. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and led by Cornell Tech's Deborah Estrin, the framework enables researchers to build health study apps on Android. The first proof-of-concept app, Mole Mapper, lets users photograph and track moles for melanoma research. ResearchStack was in beta at the time of writing, with a public launch planned for April 14th, 2016. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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