Habit Rabbit - Essential Goal Tracking App

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  Main Page

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  Adding a Habit

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  Completing a Habit

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  Visual Progress

Inspiration

This app was initially directed towards addiction, meant to ease people off of alcohol or drugs. However, I decided to widen my consumer range to all people, and make it a general habit tracking app, so that people could use it as for their individual purposes.

What it does

Users can customize their habits (title, date, repeat, category, color, and reminders) and add them to their Habit calendar, clearly showing them their progress and oncoming schedule.

How I built it

I used JTApplecalendar, integrated with a podfile to display the user's habit calendar, Eureka, a form API to facilitate the users' habit creation process, and CellSwipeKit, a table row swiping API to make completing or deleting habits easier and cleaner.

Challenges I ran into

I had many problems, from saving an array to coreData, to getting local notifications to work. However, the biggest problem I had surfaced as I tried to submit to the App Store. It turns out that my frameworks were all messed up, and I ended up deleting all of my carthage files and podfiles and redownloading them. Even after that, I still had errors, and I still truly don't know how I fixed the problem.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

With the many errors I encountered throughout my project, I have learned that being a developer can be very unpredictable. I am proud of myself for being able to persevere and complete my app, despite the hardships I went through.

What I learned

A year earlier, I took an app development course at Stanford with IDTech, and quite honestly, I learned absolutely nothing. They only developed my desire for more app development knowledge. That is why I came to Make School, and I am so glad I did. In just the first two weeks, I learned 10 times as much as I did in the IDTech course, and I now feel that with the practice of making my app Habit Rabbit, I can truly move on to make more. At first, I doubted the course's methods, thinking that I wouldn't be able to make an app on my own without instruction, but I have now learned to make use of the vast internet and use stack overflow excessively. I feel great about my time spent at Make School, and I think it has inspired my future career path.

What's next for Habit Rabbit - Essential Goal Tracking App

If my app is very well-received, I will definitely continue and produce updates for my users. However, if it seems that not many people are interested, I will begin work on a new app idea that my sisters came up with. It's something they are very excited about and I want to come through for them.

Built With

• swift
• xcode