jaytala / FitLift

A health and fitness tracking app

FitLift

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Product Spec
3. Timeline
4. Wireframes
5. Schema

Overview

Description

FitLift is an all around fitness journal app. The easy to use and customizable interface provides fitness goers an easy way to log their workouts. Features include the ability to automatically calculate the total amount of weight lifted, connection to 3rd party fitness wearables (Fitbit, Google fit, etc.), ability to add friends and compete, and a nutrition tracker section.

App Evaluation

• Category: Health & Fitness
• Mobile: This app will initally be mobile focused and incorporate features such as camera use, location tracking, and push notifications
• Story: The value of this story is very clear. It is mainly focused on creating an easy way to track your fitness progress, while also including features to gamify this process with the hope of creating more motivation
• Market: The market will be fairly large since there are a lot of people who are focused on fitness and health. The specific focus will be on those who lift weights
• Habit: The app will become something that aids workouts and will build a habit to be used whenever someone exercises
• Scope: The app can be difficult to build, especially with some of the stretch features, but even the stripped down version of the app will still bring values to those who are interested in fitness

Product Spec

1. User Stories (Required and Optional)

Required Must-have Stories

• Users can keep a workout journal that includes entries for workout name, amount of weight being lifted, and the amount of reps
• User can quickly see the total amount of weight pushed for a given exercise
• User can scroll through previous workouts
• User can scroll through previous food journals
• User can create an account
• User can login
• User can keep a food journal with ability to track meals ate as well as attach a picture of the meal (similar to workout journal structure)
• User can swipe for new workout/food journal entry
• (SDK integration (Google fit?))
• (Visually appealing)

Optional (Stretch) Nice-to-have Stories

• User can add friends and see their fitness stats
• User can search for other users
• User can compete against friends
• User can scroll through friend's stats
• User can create and edit profile page
  • Profile Picture
  • Brief Stats
  • Bio
• User can receive notifications when close to breaking weight lifting personal records
• User can calculate macro nutrient values for food journal
• User can see recipe ideas
• User can receive notifications when a friend is exercising
• User can receive notification for when a friend passes their score
• (Food scanning API for food journal)

2. Screen Archetypes

• Creation
  • Users can keep a workout journal that includes entries for workout name, amount of weight being lifted, and the amount of reps
  • Users can keep a food journal to track meals ate during the day and quickly calculate
• Registration Screen
  • User can create an account
  • User can set profile picture
  • User can create bio
• Login Screen
  • User can login
• Stream
  • User can scroll through previous workouts
  • User can scroll through previous food journals
  • User can scroll through friend's stats
• Search
  • User can search for other users

3. Navigation

Tab Navigation (Tab to Screen)

• Workouts
• Food
• Friends

Flow Navigation (Screen to Screen)

• Login Screen
  • Workouts
• Registration Screen
  • Workouts
• Workout Creation Screen
  • Workouts
• Food Journal Creation Screen
  • Food
• Add Friends
  • Friends
• Start Competition
  • Friends
• Take picture of meal
  • Food
• User profile screen
  • Workouts
• Search users
  • Friends

Timeline

Week 1

• Account creation page
• Login page
• Fragment for workout journal
  • See total amount of work done for workout (total weight)
  • Able to scroll through past workouts

Week 2

• Fragment for food journal
  • Create journal entries similar to workout journal
  • Add ability to attach an image to each entry
  • Add entries for nutritients with summation of values
  • Able to scroll through past meals

Week 3

• SDK integration
  • Possibilities:
    • Google Fit
    • Fitbit
    • Google maps
• User profile page
  • Profile pic
  • Bio
  • Workout stats
• Ability to search other users and 'follow' them

Week 4

• Social fragment
  • See friends that you are following
  • User can scroll through friends stats/journal entries
• User can start competition with friends
  • Set time period for competition
  • Set the competing factor (weight lifted/miles ran)
  • User can receive notification when friend passes their score
  • Provide a victory popup for the user that wins the competition

Week 5

• User will recieve notification when close to breaking a record
• User will recieve notification when a friend is exercising
• API to scan barcodes to enter food items in food journal
• Visual polish

Wireframes

• Basic iteration with a few stretch stories

Schema

model->table (java class) property->column

Models

Model: User

Propery	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the journal (default field)
userName	String	unique id for user
profilePic	File	img uploaded by user
woStats	array of pointers to Workout Journals	gather weight/reps and calculate average
mealStats	array of pointers to Meal Journals	gather calorie/nutrients and calculate average

Model: Workout Journal

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the journal (default field)
woTitle	String	title of workout journal
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)
woName	String	name of workout
weight	Number	amount of weight used
reps	Number	amount of reps done

Model: Meal Journal

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for the journal (default field)
mealTitle	String	title of meal journal
createdAt	DateTime	date when post is created (default field)
updatedAt	DateTime	date when post is last updated (default field)
mealDscrp	String	description of meal entered by user
nutrient	String	nutrient name entered
amount	String	amount of a nutrient
mealPic	File	photo of meal

Model: Friend

Property	Type	Description
objectId	String	unique id for a friend (default field)
woStats	Array of pointers to workout journals of friends	Visual of workout stats of friend
meal stats	Array of pointers to meal journals of friends	visual of meal stats of friend
userName	pointer to friend (User type)	points to User table of friend

Networking

• [Add list of network requests by screen ]
• [Create basic snippets for each Parse network request]
• [OPTIONAL: List endpoints if using existing API such as Yelp]