Inspiration
WALKLY is an android application that aims to reinvent the classic walkathon. It encourages users to exercise and raise money for organizations that they care about. Users have a choice between local charities as well as organizations at CMU!
What it does
. We have a fully functional pedometer that records a user's steps. It also displays your monetary goal as well as the current balance that you have raised. A user can input a rate they pledge to donate for every 100 steps. A user can also enter their monetary goal. All values update as a user starts walking. A user can also choose a local charity or CMU organization that they would like to donate to. Clicking either button produces an asynchronously populated list. Users can click on whichever organization they would like to donate to. The main page is updated with the user's selection. The history icon allows a user to view their past goals as they are completed.
How we built it
We used android studio, built in android phone sensors, the Charitable Donation API, and the Share Reference API.
Challenges we ran into
None of our team members had developed android apps before, so we had to learn the entire framework from scratch.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting the list of charities from the API, making a functional app.
What we learned
How to use android studio and develop and fully functional app, how to integrate front end and back end completely.
What's next for Walkly
To further develop WALKLY, we plan to add in the Venmo API to allow users to donate money directly from their Venmo account and CMU's Bridge API to allow users to choose any CMU organization.