Stronger Together

Stronger Together is a collaborative fitness app designed to foster motivation and accountability through social connections. The app's standout feature allows users to log their exercises, which then sends real-time notifications to friends, creating a supportive community of fitness enthusiasts.

Key Features

• Social Workout Logging: Record your exercises with details like reps and sets
• Real-time Friend Notifications: When you complete a workout, friends receive motivational push notifications
• Activity Feed: View a chronological feed of friends' workouts and achievements
• Workout Likes and Reactions: Engage with friends' activities through likes
• User Profiles: Track your progress and workout history

Technology Stack

• Frontend: React Native with Expo framework
• UI Libraries: React Native UI Lib, React Native Reanimated, React Native Gesture Handler
• State Management: Zustand and React Query (TanStack Query)
• Backend: Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Storage)
• Push Notifications: Expo Notifications
• Navigation: Expo Router
• Authentication: Firebase Authentication with Google Sign-in integration
• TypeScript: Used throughout for type safety and improved developer experience
• Deployment: EAS (Expo Application Services)

This project demonstrates expertise in mobile app development, real-time notifications, social features implementation, and cloud integration. It showcases the ability to create a polished, feature-rich application that combines fitness tracking with social engagement to enhance user motivation.

Development

Getting Started:

• Download Expo and go their Getting Started docs. This will install most of the dependencies needed to run this app.

Also install:

• XCode (for running the iOS app)
• Android Studio (for running the Android app)
• Firebase credentials (ask project admin)

Install dependencies

$ nvm use
$ npm install

Start the Expo development server

$ npx expo start

If the above fails, try building the app locally:

$ npx expo prebuild --clean
$ npx expo run:ios # or npx expo run:android

Project Structure:

See Project Structure

Creating and submitting a Release

• How to create and submit a release locally. (save $ on the 30 max build per month from EAS)
• Note, you will need to update the eas.json file to include the ascAppId for the app you are building.
• Add the --non-interactive flag, as of this issue: expo/eas-cli#2639

$ eas build --non-interactive --platform ios --local
$ eas submit -p ios
# > select build from local binary file