Open Fit API - The open source fitness platform

Submitted by aaron on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 13:55

Yesterday Gear Fisher, CEO of TrainingPeaks, wrote a thoughtful and usually candid blog post about scalability challenges and service commitments that SaaS companies face today. You can see my reply on their facebook wall above.

OpenFit Mobile / Tablet UI Changes

Submitted by aaron on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 14:20

I've pushed out quite a few styling & CSS changes so OpenFit looks great on mobile phone and tablet devices. Going forward all development will put a priority on mobile and use progressive enhancement for the laptop/desktop UI when there is more screen width available.

These changes will be in the next 1.2 release or you can go get the latest source code at bitbucket.

Import memory performance improvements

Submitted by aaron on Sun, 06/10/2012 - 14:16

Today I pushed some import code changes to allow better multi-user scaling. These changes decreased peak memory usage during import up to 14 times in some scenarios! You can get the changes at bitbucket or wait for the next 1.2 release.

How'd we do that?

Activity reports available on demo site

Submitted by aaron on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 11:52

I've added a new Reports tab to the main site for charting progress over time.

This uses the same charting component as the activity detail page, so you can pick from a variety of metrics to plot and also pick the x-axis grouping of week, month or year.

Category based length and pace units for multi-sport

Submitted by aaron on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 22:34

I've added a new feature today so we can better support multi-sport athletes and non-traditional workout types: category specific pace/speed settings.

For each category the admin can set in the database:

New data API methods - update and delete

Submitted by aaron on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 14:42

I've added two new features to the code base and demo server that allow users to update and delete workouts through the REST data API.

For details integrating from a mobile app, check the Data API Reference page. If you are wanting this on your deployed site you'll have to grab the sourcecode from bitbucket.

OpenFit v1.1 released

Submitted by aaron on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 16:33

I'm happy to announce an update of OpenFit.Web and our first release of OpenFit.Mobi. If you just want the bits head over to the Download page.

For a list of features in this version, check the Release Notes.

This is a major update with a big list of new features, enhancements, and over 40 bug fixes. In addition this release includes a new open source Android app to demonstrate uploading workouts to an OpenFit.Web server. Pretty cool stuff. Below is a list of the major updates.

Added workout comments feature

Submitted by aaron on Mon, 04/09/2012 - 21:41

I've added a new feature to the demo site which will be in the release next week: workout comments.

Each workout detail now has a new tab for comments. You can see a demo on my last run.

User profile page

Submitted by aaron on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 13:56

I've added a new feature: public user profile pages.

Now you can click a user's photo and can see some basic stats as well as a list of the recent workouts they have shared. The profile page is a great starting point for making your fitness community more social. You can imagine all kinds of content and features here such as: add a comment, request friend, a list of recent comments, etc.

Five new standard workout categories

Submitted by aaron on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 13:28

I've added five new workout categories to the standard list available on the demo site. In addition to bike, run, swim & other we now have walk, hike, row, ski, skate.

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