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February 3, 2025

#81: Sleep, Walk, Run

The Trio begin a new fitness app project to surface HealthKit data. Learn about some of the discarded app ideas, then listen in on a live project kickoff planning session along with some asides about learning to be consistent, the challenges of HealthKit, what a "bento box" UI means, and more! ## Chapters 00:00 Intro Music 00:08 Introductions 01:34 Fitness App Ideas 08:41 "Sleep, Walk, Run" HealthKit Dashboard Idea 11:26 Designing the User Interface and Widgets 14:12 Features Discussion & Challenges 23:43 Surfacing HealthKit Data in Widgets 25:09 Designing a Bento Box UI 25:57 Project Goals and Learning Opportunities 27:10 Consistency and Progress in Side Projects 28:58 Live Project Planning Session 37:48 Stretch Goals 39:48 Project Planning Wrap-Up 45:25 Wrap-Up & Jokes 46:18 Not a Sponsor: MioVino.app 47:22 Tag Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.

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