Summary: an app that shows adjustable reminders to reach the step and floor goals.
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/be49da19-0531-4dc7-b146-d3c89993b5a8
Hi!
A few times I felt really pissed off after failing my step goal streaks just because of... well, forgetting about that! I was pretty sure that after a good training, the step goal was reached. However, in the morning I was shown that yesterday I made some 200-300 steps less than needed. I decided I need a simple yet effective solution for that.
I have made a really tiny app that helps me to reach my daily step goals. It does so by showing configurable time-based notifications when the step goal is not yet reached.
The app is really simple — there's even no main view. Besides the settings, the only UI is implemented as an application wake request which contains the remaining steps count. Either accepted or dismissed, the wake request just closes the app.
The alerts are adjustable based on the time left before the watch sleep time. There are options of 0.5h, 1h, 1.5h, 2h, 3h and 5h. Enabling one or two suitable alerts can effectively remind of the step goal when there's still enough time for an activity.
In case an alert time happens during an activity, the alert is postponed until the activity ends. So the alerts don't disturb during workouts.
The required permissions are:
- Run in the background when it is not active (potentially affecting battery life) — to allow scheduling the wake requests time-based and occasionally after activity ends;
- Your Garmin Connect
fitness profile — to read watch sleep time.
I am happy to publish the application for everyone interested to try out and use:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/be49da19-0531-4dc7-b146-d3c89993b5a8
If you have any questions, improvement ideas, issues or device support requests, feel free to post here.
