Include MotionGPS on Actifit

in #utopian-io7 years ago (edited)

Actifit is a steem based project that rewards people for being active. It doesn't matter what you do. It could be jogging, playing tennis walking or doing regular house chores. So far the app counts your step above 5k steps, you will get a tip from the project. Steem upvote and Afit token. For anyone who wants to know more about the project can check here.

I used to be a very active user of the Actifit app. I haven't been active because of some personal reasons. (Busy) But, I was studying the app yesterday. Immediately, I opened the app and moved my hand a bit. I got 5 steps counts without really doing anything intentionally.

Here, this has advantages and disadvantages to some users.

Advantages - The app sensor is sharp. Which is very good; it faster the steps for users. A user can stay on the spot and get 2k steps simply by sharking his/her hand consciously or unconsciously. This makes the app to be really friendly.

Disadvantage - Some real athletes really want to know
the exact step they made on jogging and in sprinting, which the initial counting of a little hand moving might count along with the intended aim.

My proposal and the solution

Motion GPS or real movement counter. This is the name I give to the idea. There could be a button added in the app that will enable and disable this function.
Here is how it works.
When enabled it will also request for GPS to allow and it will track the current user location.
A mere shaking of hand will not work again only jogging and sprinting will make the app to count. I propose, there should be a button so that users will have the ability to choose what so ever they want.

Mock up

As shown in the mock up below, when the motion GPS is enabled, it will send a signal to the mobile GPS, which will help track user current location and start working as explained. Just like how GPS work on movement.

Image (2) With the information to enable mobile location for effective work.

Benefit

The idea has shown its benefit. The flexibility of the app is good, but it's not always counting on genuine movement. The availability of this feature will cause users that are athletes to count their track accurately.
I believe it is one of the improvements that will make the project to be more helpful. This has happened to me many times. There was even a time plug to charge my phone when the count was 2560, by the time my battery filled up the count was reading 4k plus. That could be a bug; however, this function will avoid something like that.

Thank you

Actifit repository: https://github.com/actifit/actifit

https://github.com/darewealth

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Hi @darewealth, thank you for your suggestion.

You made a good post.

Unfortunately a similar idea was submitted on GitHub. That issue was closed and the PO replied him the following:

Thank you, we plan on adding GPS integration (...)

The implementation of GPS integration is already on their roadmap.
The only difference with your idea is that you suggested to add a shorcut to enable/disable the GPS.

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