Habitat


Habitat is an iOS mobile app and a Penn-themed habit tracker.


Maggie Yu, Logan Cho, Arushi Srivastava, Leon Hertzberg, Julia Deng, Xinyi Zheng


Background


Level up your Penn squirrel by completing habits! Penn Habitat is a productivity app that can help you manage tasks and set up your day. By completing tasks, you can customize your character and see your squirrel evolve into the quintessential Penn student.




Timeline


Milestone 1

  • Present a rough sketch of the habit tracker’s main window.
Milestone 2
  • Implement add/delete features to the habit trackers, create background theme.




Challenges


  • Having all developers set up Firebase properly
  • Attendance and engagement in meetings in a virtual setting




Takeaways


  • Learned a lot about the basics of iOS Development
  • Worked with Firebase and SwiftUI
  • "It was great learning in and working with Figma! Also, it was very cool seeing my designs come to life" - Julia Deng
  • “I put myself in the designer mindset for the first time and it was a lot of fun!” - Karen Zheng
  • "Learning Swift for the first time and working as a team was awesome! Learned some really useful stuff while surrounded by great people!” - Leon Hertzberg




Looking Forward


Looking forward, we could continue to expand our project by:

  • Adding more features to habits, such as repeating a habit.