steps for steps

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  Our main screen, where users can view their daily step count and the tokens they have earned.

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  Our social screen, where users can compare their step and token counts with their friends.

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  Our about screen, where users can read about our mission and see what they can do to help.

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  Our progress screen, where users can track their daily progress over time and see how they have improved.

Inspiration

We were inspired by applications like FreeRice and Ecosia that allow users to improve their world by completing tasks they already perform in their everyday lives.

What it does

Steps For Steps is a pedometer based app where for every 1000 steps a user walks, 5 cents is donated to a prosthetics organization. This money is generated through the use of small advertisements on every page of our app. All the user has to do is walk around with the mobile application open, and they will be helping those who cannot walk at all. In addition, the user can use the app to track their own daily step counts and compare their step counts to others.

How we built it

We incorporated Apple's accelerometer feature into our app, which was coded with Xcode. All graphics were created with Adobe Photoshop.

Challenges we ran into

This is our first Hackathon, and our first time working with iOS development, so just getting everything set up and learning the syntax was a challenge. In addition, we wanted to integrate Intel's Edison into our app, but we could not get the hardware to work, which was disappointing.

What we learned

As this was our first Hackathon, and we had no experience in app development, everything we learned was new.

What's next for steps for steps

We would like to incorporate Intel's Edison into our app, as was our original plan. We were also considering using Google mobile ads in order to create the revenue necessary to achieve our goal. Finally, we would eventually like to link the app to social media.

Built With

• xcode