Omtech | Achiever

The Vision

Achiever Application

A healthy lifestyle is something we all strive for, but it doesn't happen overnight. It's annoying when you can’t find your perfect advisor and figure out which habits are best suited to maintain a HEALTHY life! We all know how busy life gets these days. During hectic schedules, it can be hard to stay on top of your health, and no one is going to remind you about what diet or habit would be best for a healthier lifestyle because they just don't have enough energy anymore themselves!

The mission of the Achiever was to achieve a long-term change in lifestyle that would lead to positive health outcomes continuously. Together with them, we took the challenge to create a solution that does not quick fix the health issues but to give better results in a few weeks or months - that is something that needs to be done every day if your goal is long-term healthy living!

We created an IT solution that encourage you to live a healthy lifestyle by completing daily goals. Keep track of your health progress by monitoring your food intake, water intake, and workout pattern, and strive to live a healthy life through accepting challenges. Learn to turn your challenges into habits to improve your fitness.

Our team was ready and confident in developing the idea into an IT Solution that solves all our health-related troubles. Explore how their wonderful idea became a beautiful IT Solution!

Our Solution

Track and achieve health goals for a better and healthier tomorrow

based on your current health. For example, drink a glass of water as soon as you wake up, eat slowly and walk at least 5,000 steps a day. The Achiever reminds and motivates you to keep healthy habits, to eat well, and to walk more by sending you timely reminders with motivational quotes.

It's an easy-to-use mobile app that allows you to set daily goals you can reach and encourages a healthy lifestyle. Improve your diet, exercise, and sleep routine at your own pace. You can follow the Achiever guidelines throughout the day to reach your Habits, Nutrition, and Steps goal. The more you advance in Achiever, the more different levels and time you have to achieve goals.

The solution suggests what healthy habits you should build/follow, what nutrition tips you should follow, and how many steps you should walk
By developing a very user-friendly UI/UX and using suitable technologies, this solution allows each user to continuously improve their health in an organized and guided way. To live a healthier life, keep in mind the goals that are best suited to each user's needs - be it a healthy diet or simply walking regularly or daily.

With our IT Solution, achieving health goals is fun and motivating. Find out how we did it!

Main Features

Progress Management

Once user unlocks the Achiever by purchasing the monthly subscription, they can view a quick guide for Habits, Nutrition, and Steps. On the home screen, users can see their overall progress for Habits, Nutrition, and Steps in a dashboard. The progress tracker will let users know at which level they are currently. It will also show motivational quotes to get the user started on the right track.

At each level, there are a set number of days to complete the Habits, Nutrition, and Steps. By completing all three circles for Habits, Nutrition, and Steps, the user will progress to the next level.

As users advance through the levels, the number of days and steps will consistently increase, and the tasks will become increasingly challenging. In addition, users can see if they have completed their Habits, Nutrition, and Steps for the day on the home screen.

Habits Management

Achiever will help users develop healthy habits to meet their fitness goals. Users will also gain a better understanding of their bodies and health. Users' daily routine is responsible for their health transformation, and it is determined by user habits, both the good and the bad.

Achiever sets users a task every day with the aim of helping users to develop new and healthy habits. This will not only help users to become healthier in the short term but will also help users to live a healthier lifestyle in the long term. When users are aware of the recommendations and tips that drive their dietary and nutrition decisions, they can develop positive habits and make healthier choices.

With proper daily practice of Achiever's habits, the user will be able to maintain a healthy weight and have a satisfying sleeping schedule. Achiever explains each habit in detail, why it is important, and how it will affect users' health. If users have trouble with a particular habit, consult Achiever tips are available for their habit.

As users advance in levels, they will find the habits become gradually harder, but along with this will come to a greater sense of accomplishment and results.

Nutrition Management

Tracking users' nutrition has so many benefits, from helping to manage food intolerances to increasing energy, avoiding mood changes, and fueling the rhythms of their day.

Achievers' balanced nutritional program is based on the principle that the best program is one that users enjoy following long-term.

Users will get portion control guidance like; Caffeine which is recommended maximum amount of caffeine to consume each day is 400 mg (500ml of coffee). Carbohydrates, fruit, healthy fat, protein, vegetables, water, and more nutrition.

The Achiever's guidelines must be followed throughout the day in order to achieve a nutrition day, and the user must complete a set number of nutrition days at each level. Users can hold the completion button at the end of the day to confirm the successful completion of their nutrition day. To advance to the next level, users must follow the nutrition guidelines for a set number of days.

Steps Management

Users of Achiever use daily steps as a practical, accessible, and efficient way to move every day. Walking can be done every day as part of their routine. Despite being underrated as a form of exercise, it is extremely beneficial to do it as often as a user can.

Apple Health App is integrated with Achiever. This allows users to keep track of their steps of today and over the past week and to track their progress. By the time user reach later levels, they will be able to accomplish goals they never thought possible at the start! Track users' weekly progress and challenge themselves further to achieve their daily step target in streaks. Get into the habit of walking every day for good health.

Follow a defined number of steps to complete a day in Achiever successfully. Every day, Achiever will give the user a certain number of steps to complete. They can monitor and visualize their weekly progress as they achieve their daily step goals.

Feature Overview

User profile management

Heatlth dashboard

Daily habits management

Nutrition management

Foot-steps tracker

Dark mode feature

Notifications

Animated UI

Tech Stack

We are listening to our customers and thrive to cover all open questions and demystify software development processes and technologies behind it. Enjoy exploring some of the topics in our blog categories below.

Native Development iOS (Swift)

Native App Development is the creation of software programs that run on specific devices and platforms. Users can build beautiful native apps for target devices-smartphones.

Back-end framework, Logic, Server

Our team used the Laravel framework for backend development. In order to prevent hackers from injecting harmful code into the server or databases, the system architecture played an important role. For the database, we used MySQL, which is widely accepted and offers atomic consistency with go-to solutions for data integrity. We developed APIs for accessing user levels, daily habits, and nutrition from the server to the user interface.

Lottie-iOS, AnLongTapButton, ConfettiView

Lottie has been integrated for goal completion animations. The Lottie animation file format makes it easy to ship animations across platforms as easily as static assets.

AnLongTapButton integrates a long tap button with an animated progress bar, which is used to animate button taps and holds.

Using ConfettiView, we created a wonderful confetti view for our application. We've integrated ConfettiView so users can enjoy fun animated confetti views on the go to make successful moments more enjoyable for them.

Firebase Notifications

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) allows users to send and receive messages and notifications from iOS, Android, and the web in a reliable and battery-efficient manner. Firebase has been integrated to deliver notifications immediately or at a future time in the user's local time zone. Set custom data, sounds, and expiration dates, as well as track custom conversion events.

AlamoFire

Alamofire is a Swift-based HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS. Alamofire is integrated into the core of the system by URLSession and URLSessionTask subclasses. It wraps these APIs, along with many others, in a user-friendly interface and provides a variety of functionality needed for Achiever App development over HTTP.

In-App Purchase

In-app purchases provide a consistent and safe experience supported by world-class commerce and payment systems, allowing users to manage their subscriptions and purchases over time. We have added Apple ID for quick payments in 45 currencies, using payment methods associated with their Apple ID, which supports nearly 200 payment methods, including Apple Pay, credit or debit cards, store credit, region-specific methods, and more.

Admin Panel

With the upcoming challenges, users will be more engaged with their daily goals. Admin can keep notifying them if they don't open or use the app within 24 hours. Also, the admin can view the total active users and export the invoice, charts, and analytics of the application.

Challenge

Biggest Challenge And Our Journey Of Overcoming

We faced challenges while implementing In-App Purchase with promo code, free trial period, and redeem offer. Users can unlock the Achiever App by purchasing a subscription. They will have 14 days free trial after purchase.

Subscription offers unique and alphanumeric promo codes that provide free or discounted prices for auto-renewable subscriptions. Customers can redeem offer codes on the App Store. We had implemented In-App Purchase in many projects before but hadn't had experience with trial periods and redeem offers.

To solve this issue we accomplished some researches to find best practices to implement a meaningful solution. We got to know that Apple provides the offer time in the receipt as well as with the product data. When a customer successfully redeems a subscription offer code, the receipt is generated for the customer. So, we directly fetch offer time from product data without using any 3rd party for this implementation. This way, we implemented IAP easily and successfully.

Another challenge we faced while working on Achiever was implementing Health-kit to get step data. Health kit data was easy to fetch from the health app but the challenge was we needed to sync this data with the backend and also manage the levels.

To solve this challenge, we read relevant documents on StackOverflow and created our own easy-to-maintain API. This helped us sync our data and manage the performance level for our users.

With a “Never Give Up” attitude and the motto of “Client&User Happiness”, the challenges were no more than a few enjoyable moments for us.

Special Moment

Most Special Moment In Our Journey

One of the most special functions is tracking health progress.

Our solution makes it easy for anyone at any level to become part of the Achiever community and to stay healthy. By using helpful hints and daily goals, users can easily keep track of Habits, Nutrition, and Steps.

The home screen displays progress in percentages. There is a circle for every Habits, Nutrition, and Steps. As an example, if the user progressed 4% in steps, 5% in nutrition, and 3% in habits, the app would fill a 4% circle out of 100% for steps, 5% for nutrition, and 3% for habits. Users can also share statistics images. Additionally, it shows the view of a man standing on a horizontal line at 12% out of 100%. Furthermore, it shows the user's current level out of all levels. In this way, the users have an idea of how many levels remain, and it gives them the motivation to stick to their Habits, Nutrition, and Steps goals.

Users can see how many days they have followed their habit each time they mark a goal as completed. By submitting one of the happy, neutral, or sad emojis, users can share their habit completion experience. In the graph, the app shows completed total steps, average steps per day, and steps per week.

It was really special to us to design the user interface of the application intuitively and simply. We also wanted it to be simple enough for anyone who wants to achieve their goals. That's why we took a very straightforward approach with this app! Developing Achiever has been a very special journey, and we also had a great collaboration with our client.

We realized the customer's and our dream to make millions of users healthier. Another dream we made come true. We can't wait for what's next!

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