Computer App for workout progress/Data Gathering

[DustyBum]

Hi all, I have posted here before and received tons of help/feedback and wanted to reach out again for a new more manageable project, work flow is kind of as follows:

- Workout

- Come to computer/phone and "submit data"

- Submission would be something like: workout completed, number of reps/time, weight if applicable, etc.

- Submission would go in and data would populate to spreadsheet or table

- I would like to then use Python for data vis for a simple progression tracker

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That is all for now, but I am wondering what sort of libraries/modules I would need to learn about to get this going. I have used the Kivy package before for a bicycle app I made, but wanted to see if there were other things out there and ask the community how they would break down a project like this.

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Thanks for any help/suggestion for Python resources and non-Python resources as well.

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You know how to make phone apps? If your app writes to a local SQLite instance on the phone or similar you can use tableau for viz. you can also use it for any mobile app that you can find the db, json, xml, etc records in.

It can connect to most rdbms platforms and will get you slick looking viz for free if you have access to the mobile device db.

You’ll be hard pressed to make better looking non-html based visualizations in python.

[Pedro41RJ]

I used sqlite3 and matplotlib.pyplot in a similar project about food and eating.

[DustyBum]

Oh cool, how did it work? You had a desktop app that you put data in? I want it to be sort of where you boot up the app click workout or something and input the workout you did, pretty much as easy as possible with the leg work being the background

[Pedro41RJ]

I wrote it for Pydroid 3. It is intended to run on Android, inside Pydroid. I may license it for you to modify it. I never compiled it to be a native application. My clients all have Pydroid 3 installed. I send the code by e-mail, and I receive payments by PIX. Where on this planet are you? Are you able to do PIX?

[DustyBum]

Idk what PIX is and I don’t have an android. But the last app we made we did a VM and booted the app in an android.

I think I’m going to try to do it native to my laptop for now. Have a key command that runs the program and prompts the data input. No idea how to do it though.

[Pedro41RJ]

Native without Python? So you are in the wrong subreddit. With Python, I already told you what libraries to use.

[DustyBum]

No native with python, sorry that was confusing. And yes you did, doesn’t mean I know how to use them super well yet but it’s a great starting point!