Feature Request Steps

[CamBaeri]

Use case

So I'm trying to stop giving my data to big tech, and enjoy how simple your app is, and one thing I think would be valuable is Step Counting functionality.
I recently stopped using samsung health because of the pervasive data collection and permission request.
Phones and Watches nowadays come with a pedometer. I don't really know how you would be able to access and display the data. But I just thought the feature maybe valuable to consider adding if you haven't considered it already. Thanks for reading.

Proposal

Step Counting would be valuable for the app because it can give users a useful display of their daily activity, and bring more usage to the app via step tracking and potentially even tracking calories burned via steps taken. This can assist with exercise documentation.

Additional Context

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[rolandgeider]

hi! We are in fact planning on extracting this data from google/apple health. One of the things we will prepare for this is refactor the measurements so we actually know what type of category it is so we can among other things present the data properly. While this does not avoid big tech completely, it's at least a first step, we can then delete the data on their servers afterwards. Also, if we can ever read the data directly from the watch, all this work will be already done (I have no idea how realistic this is, and what we would need to, do we get the data from the OS? if we need to understand the raw sensor data, we're out)

[laurik-de]

@rolandgeider You can read the step sensor data from the phone and with that data get the steps count. This is pretty much what any step counter app does (for example the open source app Paseo https://gitlab.com/pardomi/paseo/tree/HEAD). The biggest challenge for me was to get a reliable background service that is always active to get the step readings. As for watches, I don't know if that can be done.