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RE: Actifit Daily #27: More Stats, Call Out to Charities, Curation Trail, Top 10 Actifiters & Delegations
Another future thing you can do is what the biggest company in China, Alipay, is doing. Your step count adds an amount of carbon grams to a seed which, over time, grows into a tree. Once fully grown, they go out and plant your actual tree.
Alipay take it pretty far with the ability go get points by using public transport, riding bikes, and other green activity, but could be fairly easy to implement based on the pedometer/travel distance alone. It's incentivised me to walk where I'd otherwise taxi, for sure.
They make a game out of it, allowing you to steal grams from others if they don't collect their grams in time, choose your tree and location to plant etc.
For the future, as I say.
That's a lovely idea @mobbs, thanks!
I had seen this before on Ali express, but probably too early that it wasn't tied to step count or any of the likes. II remember it required watering the tree and putting some pest treatment on it, but this certainly has turned into a great concept !
Potential future plans .. yes ! :)
Waterinng and such isn't a thing now then I guess, but you do get live streams showing things being planted where you choose and stuff which is cool.
By the way while I'm here, the 'agressive' settings still doesn't allow the app to work when screen in is locked/ app minimized. I went for quite a long walk and got home to a total of something like 200 steps, most of which occurred when I was sitting down and looking at my phone...
Thanks @mobbs for the feedback!
Although we did our best coding-wise to require Android to keep the process running, apparently on your phone model it doesn't. A modification in your phone settings should be able to help get this one fixed.
Would you please try to tick off the energy saving mode for Actifit and see if this helps? if this doesn't work please chat to me on discord and we will figure it out.