Simple Fitbit Activities
Introduction
The goal of this project is to simplify access and calculation of activities inside Fitbit OS applications.
It was built to do all this work easier and reduce the need to update the UI and calculations. Less you have to calculate something or update the UI and more you will reduce the impact of your application on the battery consumption.
Features
This module includes many features to help developers :
- Get activities from a consistent way to allow you app to have a generic class to update the UI (each type of activity is reported as an object with the actual value, and goal,... and helpers).
- Report activities only when progression or goal changed (to avoid your app to make too many requests to the UI).
- Distance respect user preference (miles or metric).
- It contains many solutions to avoid exceptions in your applications.
- Method to obtain user progression as a percentage.
- Method to obtain user progression as angle (360°=100%).
- Type definitions for TypScript or JavaScript (with comments to visualize the documentation when you are coding).
Data structure
Data returned by the module respect the Activities
interface. Each property is defined when new values are available.
/*** * All activities */
Each property of Activities
respect the Activity
interface.
It exposes
- The current value of the activity (from the fitbit
today.adjusted
interface). - The goal fixed by the user.
- Method to know if the current value was not defined (
true
when the user didn't allow access to activities). - Method to know if the user as reached the goal of this activity (
false
if data are undefined or out of the range). - Method to obtain user progression as a percentage (
0
if data are undefined or calculation is impossible). - Method to obtain user progression as angle (360°=100%). (
0
if data are undefined or calculation is impossible).
/** * Activity */
ActiveZoneMinutesActivity as 3 more properties:
- cardio of type Activity.
- fatBurn of type Activity.
- peak of type Activity.
Properties actual
and goal
are exposing total values.
Installation
1. Install the module
You could use a any package manager to install this module. it was tested with npm and pnpm.
npm install simple-fitbit-activities --save-dev
2. Request user's permissions
Your application should have access to :
access_activity
: requested to obtain activities of the user.access_user_profile
: requested to know if the user use miles or meters for distance.
Your package.json
should be like this (you could request more permissions, it is not a problem) :
Exemple :
If permissions are not well set, you will not have exceptions :
- Activitiy's method
undefined()
could return false. - Values and calculs will return
0
. - Distance will use
miles
as unit.
3. Initialize the device app
Inside the app
folder the index.ts
file have to :
- Import the module.
- Initialize the module with the method to call when UI should be updated with new activities.
Exemple :
;// initializesimpleActivities.initializeUpdateActivities;
4. Use and get activities
The UpdateActivities
have to call the getNewValues()
method to obtain new values.
Exemple :
// Update Activities informations
The method UpdateActivity
ia a generic method (for example). This method is here to update the UI. Prior to update the UI, the Activity
should be verified. It will be undefined
if values haven't changed since the last call.
5. Refresh / update
This module hasn't logic to periodic refresh. You have to call your UpdateActivities
method when you need an update of user activities (you could use the Fitbit clock
module to).
6. Bonus
The method elevationIsAvailable()
allow your app to check if the device has capacity to monitor user elevation.
The module has a reset method. It will delete cache of activities. Next call to getNewValues()
will return an object will all properties defined. It could have an interest when you have to reset your UI, or when you want to force the call of all your methods.
Exemple:
// Reset activitiessimpleActivities.reset;// Call an updateUpdateActivities;
Contribute or report issues
You can report any issue via GitHub, if you found one, please report it! This code was open to be shared and improved. If you have an idea, tell it or send a pull request. Keep in mind that this module is built for small devices. It does not have the goal to be a Swiss knife with hundreds of functions. It is why it is simple as possible.
Compilation
This module was built with TypeScript. It uses Typescript to generate JavaScript files that are imported by the Fitbit SDK. It includes the following npm scripts to:
- build (generate JavaScript files and copy all requested files to the
./distribution
directory) - clean (remove generated files from the
./distribution
directory).
If you change exported methods or class, think to update those files.