My orthopedist gave me a paper with some exercises to strenghten my back.
I wanted something which guided me through the exercises. There are plenty of fitness apps around which use android’s text-to-speech function to tell people what to do for their exercises. But I did not find one which allowed me to define my own exercises.
I wanted the application to run on my android. Some time ago I already tried out phonegap and cordova to write android apps. For this app I looked for something new and found https://nativescript.org/, although it is not that new. In the end I found the tooling better than that of phonegap or cordova.
It was relatively easy to start and a first version which just said something was build soon.
The exercises are defined using a yaml format with currently only three operations:
- say something
- display something
- wait some time
But this was enough for me to have a usable app.
If you want to give it a try you will find a link to the apk in the repo packages:
(qr code is provided by http://goqr.me/de/)
Questions can be asked on the repo’s discussions page.