Kitten Contact

Inspiration

We were inspired by our mutual interest in mobile apps, specifically Genshin Impact, and our shared passion for social and public health and well-being.

What it does

Kitten Contact is a mobile IOS app that encourages users to increase the number of steps they take by allowing users to adopt one of 6 kittens of different tiers for every 2000 steps they take. Following the gacha system, the higher tier the kitten is, the more challenging it will be to obtain it. As a result, we hope to encourage users to walk more in order to maximize their chances of obtaining a rarer kitten.

How we built it

We used XCode as an IDE to build our IOS app using SwiftUI and photoshop for our graphics.

Challenges we ran into

A challenge we ran into was figuring out how to calculate distance of a user since calculating from point A to point B is actually calculating displacement, so we used the number of steps of a user. Another challenge we encountered was implementing our pictures into our app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that our app functionally working and we worked together to create an app that we collectively wanted to build.

What we learned

We learned the foundation of Swift and how to implement HealthKit, a framework that uses data from the Health App, into our app.

What's next for Kitten Contact

We hope to create more kittens for users to collect and to improve the user interface and user experience. Specifically, we hope to add animations for 5 star kittens. We also want to incorporate the food and water into a more interactive experience for the user by allowing users to feed and water their kittens.