Stepathlon Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd.

Client:

Stepathlon Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd. Stepathlon is a 12-month employee wellness program, which include a global 75 Day Race around a ‘virtual world’ that helps all sizes organisations employees, across all industries and countries to stay healthy, happy and more productive lives.

Website:

https://www.stepathlon.com

Project Requirements:

According to client, the platform was not compatible and buggy. Mobile apps were not working as expected and it was available with limited features.

Key Features:

Integrated real-time leader-board

Update Achievement Section with social sharing and download options

Stage Configurations

Customizable event members size

Build iOS and Android apps in Native Technology

Integrate steps counter feature in both the app to track users moment

Compatibility with MI, Garmi, Goqii and other devices

Integration with third-party apps[moves]

All features of web application are available on mobile apps

Interactive multimedia news feeds section to increase users engagement

The Solution Architecture:

Course Site:

As per the client requirement, we have updated the course website platform that makes site more configurable and easy to use. We have integrated new features like social sharing and download options in course site Achievement Section. To improve users presence we have created newsfeed section where users can add images, videos and blogs to win step points.

Mobile Apps:

Stepathlon old apps was build in hybrid technology, as per the requirement we rebuild app in native technology which makes that application more capable to support new features. In android app, we have also build over step counter using Google Feet which track users moment of walking as well as running. But, iOS app have inbuild feature in the device itself. We have change the look and feel of the stepathlon android app as well as iOS app.

Challenges & Solutions:

To manage large amount of database, we have used new database management systems like Cassandra & Solr

Making platform more configurable and comfortable to use

Archiving achievements of users

Integration of new design and making it responsive

Step calculator integration in android app

Technology Environment:

Data Stack, Java/JEE, JPA, Jersey, Java Mail API, Jedis, Redis MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, PHP [Code Igniter & Zend], Android, iOS, AWS, S3 bucket, jQuery, Highcharts, HTML, CSS.

Team Size:

8 [1 Team Lead, 2 Designer, 2 PHP Developers, 1 Android Developer, 1 iOS Developer, 1 Tester, 2 Back-End Developers].

Duration:

9 month and on going