launch

Introducing Activity Stats

Last Wednesday, April 29, 2020, Ian Blackburn tweeted a screenshot of his Total Apple Watch Activity numbers. He calculated the totals on a spreadsheet, by exporting the data from the Health app on his iPhone.

Ian’s data made me curious about my totals and it seemed really easy to put together an app for it. And so I started building Activity Stats. With all the work I have been doing with HealthKit in Tempo, it was really straightforward to get the data out of the Health app. My recent learning/playing with SwiftUI made it extremely fast and easy to put together a nice looking UI.

I shared the app with Ian and few other friends via TestFlight, and everyone found it interesting and thought it looked good. Even my 10 year old wanted it on her iPhone. That seemed adequate amount of validation for me to polish up and launch a quick v1.0 of the app. So today, 7 days after starting it as a brand new project in Xcode, I am excited to be releasing Activity Stats in the App Store! 🚀

Activity Stats is a simple app that displays your lifetime totals of various types of fitness and workout data stored in the Health app on your iPhone. Here's the list of totals it currently supports,

  • Total active calories

  • Total exercise time

  • Total steps count

  • Total walking and running distance

  • Total walking and running distance

  • Total walking distance from workouts

  • Total swimming distance

  • Total cycling distance

  • Total indoor cycling time

  • Total elliptical time

  • Total workout time

  • Total workouts

Activity Stats is available for free in the App Store. If you are curious about your totals, please do check it out.

Tempo v1.0

Tempo is now available in the App Store. If you run with your Apple Watch, please do check it out.

You can read Tempo’s story here. To celebrate the launch, here are some more fun facts that I edited out of the original story,

  • I sketched up Tempo’s original screen last year, during a sleepy morning, while staying up with my newborn. It was probably around 5 AM.
  • That sort of got me into the sketching habit during early morning hours. Most of them now are before my long runs on the weekends.
  • Many Tempo features have been devised during miles and miles of training on Newton hills and other parts of the Boston marathon course along Comm. Ave.
  • During its initial prototyping phase, Tempo was called Runlog.
  • Tempo has been my only running log for my last 2 marathon training cycles.
  • I have been building it for almost a year, crafting it slowly and carefully as my go-to running log. As I have said before, I love running and building software, and building Tempo is now my favorite way to enjoy both!
  • Tempo is the very first project launched under Indie Computing Labs, LLC.

Hello, world!

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Slowly and steadily, I am almost ready to launch Indie. So I figured I should say hello here.

What does launch mean? It's launching Indie's first project: Tempo. It is code complete, tested and ready to ship. Approved and ready to be released in the App Store.

You can read more about Indie here

Here's why I built Tempo.

Looking forward to this journey!