Blossom

Blossom is a mobile app that incentivises users to go outside and stay active in a fun and rewarding way. We wanted to combine health and wellness with sustainability and mindfulness. Many fitness apps focus solely on personal progress, so we thought, why not create something that reflects growth not only in ourselves but also in the world around us? A virtual garden that blossoms through physical exercise was the perfect way to merge physical activity with an interactive and visually rewarding experience.

Screenshots

Features

• Light/dark mode based on time
• Live foreground and background location tracking
• Social feature to visit your friend's gardens

Environment Variables

To run this project there are a couple of things you need to configure:

• Go to config.ts and fill in your IPv4 address
• Go to apiKey.ts and fill in your OpenWeather API apiKey
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Run Locally

In /backend, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To deploy the backend server cd to /backend/app and run:

  python mainApp.py

For the front end, first run npm install. Go to the Expo page and follow the instructions on the Expo documentation to install. Go to /frontend and run:

    npx expo prebuild --clean

    npx expo run:[android|ios] --device

Make sure your phone is plugged into your machine and you should be able to demo!

Authors

• Andy Li, Jim Gen, Sophie Rao, Steven Huang