RE: Runtastic Heart Rate Monitors: Take your fitness analysis to the next level!
Hi Andy, Yes, Runtastic is accessible with a few limitations: When you first open the app there is a few instructions and it says Page 1 of 3 on the first page. It seems a 3-finger swipe will not advance to the next page, I had to turn Voiceover off and do a normal 1-finger swipe right to left, then when I turned Voiceover back on I was on page 2 of 3 and I repeated this to get to page 3 of 3, then I tapped the Close button at the top. After this I came to another page where Voiceover read all the text of a big list of features and limitations and at the end you have to tap I Agree. You then can sign in with Facebook or set up a Runtastic account although I have no idea why anybody would want to share their heart rate with all their Facebook friends, but then again I think this Facebook integration everywhere is stupid, of course this is just my opinion and not relevant beyond stating my opinion. At some point it told me that in order to measure my resting heart rate you should do that 2 minutes after waking up and I guess that measurement is used as a comparison for later measurements throughout the day. Once you get into the app it will tell you to lightly place your finger over the camera lens making sure it's completely covered and to hold it still. You then hear a series of beeps and a triple tone when the measurement is completed. At that point your heart rate is displayed, but I think it's some sort of graph and not necessarily very useful for a Voiceover user. However, there is a Discard and Save button at the top and if you save it, you can then see your heart rate in the History tab in a fairly straight forward list format, date and time and the heart rate. On that initial screen after the measurement you can also once again share it on Facebook or by email so you could also send yourself an email which would contain the information. I did this, see below: From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:51 AM To: siegh...@live.ca Subject: Heart rate measurement with your smartphone camera: It works! I just measured my heart rate with my smartphone camera using the Runtastic Heart Rate app. Here are my results: Heart rate: 60 Measurement type: General Avg resting heart rate: - Total measurements: 1 It works! Give it a try and download the Runtastic Heart Rate app for yourself today: http://www.runtastic.com/apps/heartrate/lite http://www.runtastic.com/apps/heartrate/lite?utm_source=heartrate_proutm_m edium=iphoneutm_campaign=share_heartrate_measurement Sent from my iPhone As you can see the average resting heart rate doesn't have a value since I haven't done this measurement. After you measure there is also an area where you can specify When Did you Measure. However, this is followed by 5 unlabelled buttons which Voiceover just announces as Button. I have not taken the time to explore what they might be or ask somebody so I could possibly label them using the custom label feature. After the When Did you measure is another area called General and it asks How did you feel. Once again this is followed by 5 unlabelled buttons. After that is Additional Info and here you have a text field where you can Add a note to this measurement, this seems no problem. Lastly you have the Share It section: Share Facebook Share Twitter Share Mail That's it. The Discard button is at the top left. The Save button is at the top right and you have to touch it,if you touch Discard at the top left and swipe right Voiceover will not go to Save, it appears to jump right over it, but it's easy to find by touching the screen underneath the battery status. After I used it a few times to write this I was at some point presented with a screen with a Close button at the top which advertised Runtastic's so-called Premium apps: Runtastic Pro Roadbike Pro PushUps Pro SitUps Pro Squats Pro PullUps Pro My conclusion: I think this app seems to do what it advertises and it appears the measurements are sort of accurate. When I started to write this it showed my heart rate as 60, I then did 25 fast PushUps just to see what it would say and it did say 78, but I don't have an actual heart rate monitor where I could do a real comparison. If somebody contacted the developer maybe they would label these 10 unlabelled buttons and make a few improvements. I think I may have gotten this for free when it was advertised in the App a Day app, but I must say I haven't used it much. I did keep it on my phone for now, but I think if you were really serious about fitness and accurate heart rate measurements getting a heart rate monitor and using an accessible fitness app which I am sure are out there would probably be better. I do also wonder how good it is for the camera lens cover to put a sweaty finger on it all the time, you would probably have to clean it fairly often if you used the app a lot, I guess otherwise it doesn't hurt it because I am sure Apple would not allow such
Re: Runtastic Heart Rate Monitors: Take your fitness analysis to the next level!
runtastic GmbHI have and use the app, but I wondered if it was accessible with their hardware devices. Andy From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 10:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Runtastic Heart Rate Monitors: Take your fitness analysis to the next level! Hi Andy, Yes, Runtastic is accessible with a few limitations: When you first open the app there is a few instructions and it says “Page 1 of 3” on the first page. It seems a 3-finger swipe will not advance to the next page, I had to turn Voiceover off and do a normal 1-finger swipe right to left, then when I turned Voiceover back on I was on page 2 of 3 and I repeated this to get to page 3 of 3, then I tapped the Close button at the top. After this I came to another page where Voiceover read all the text of a big list of features and limitations and at the end you have to tap “I Agree”. You then can sign in with Facebook or set up a Runtastic account although I have no idea why anybody would want to share their heart rate with all their Facebook friends, but then again I think this Facebook integration everywhere is stupid, of course this is just my opinion and not relevant beyond stating my opinion. At some point it told me that in order to measure my resting heart rate you should do that 2 minutes after waking up and I guess that measurement is used as a comparison for later measurements throughout the day. Once you get into the app it will tell you to lightly place your finger over the camera lens making sure it’s completely covered and to hold it still. You then hear a series of beeps and a triple tone when the measurement is completed. At that point your heart rate is displayed, but I think it’s some sort of graph and not necessarily very useful for a Voiceover user. However, there is a Discard and Save button at the top and if you save it, you can then see your heart rate in the History tab in a fairly straight forward list format, date and time and the heart rate. On that initial screen after the measurement you can also once again share it on Facebook or by email so you could also send yourself an email which would contain the information. I did this, see below: From: Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:51 AM To: siegh...@live.ca Subject: Heart rate measurement with your smartphone camera: It works! I just measured my heart rate with my smartphone camera using the Runtastic Heart Rate app. Here are my results: Heart rate: 60 Measurement type: General Avg resting heart rate: - Total measurements: 1 It works! Give it a try and download the Runtastic Heart Rate app for yourself today: http://www.runtastic.com/apps/heartrate/lite Sent from my iPhone As you can see the average resting heart rate doesn’t have a value since I haven’t done this measurement. After you measure there is also an area where you can specify “When Did you Measure”. However, this is followed by 5 unlabelled buttons which Voiceover just announces as “Button”. I have not taken the time to explore what they might be or ask somebody so I could possibly label them using the custom label feature. After the “When Did you measure” is another area called General and it asks “How did you feel”. Once again this is followed by 5 unlabelled buttons. After that is “Additional Info” and here you have a text field where you can “Add a note to this measurement”, this seems no problem. Lastly you have the “Share It” section: Share Facebook Share Twitter Share Mail That’s it. The Discard button is at the top left. The Save button is at the top right and you have to touch it,if you touch Discard at the top left and swipe right Voiceover will not go to Save, it appears to jump right over it, but it’s easy to find by touching the screen underneath the battery status. After I used it a few times to write this I was at some point presented with a screen with a Close button at the top which advertised Runtastic’s so-called “Premium” apps: Runtastic Pro Roadbike Pro PushUps Pro SitUps Pro Squats Pro PullUps Pro My conclusion: I think this app seems to do what it advertises and it appears the measurements are sort of accurate. When I started to write this it showed my heart rate as 60, I then did 25 fast PushUps just to see what it would say and it did say 78, but I don’t have an actual heart rate monitor where I could do a real comparison. If somebody contacted the developer maybe they would label these 10 unlabelled buttons and make a few improvements. I think I may have gotten this for free when it was advertised in the App a Day app, but I must say I haven’t used it much. I did keep it on my phone for now, but I think if you were really serious about fitness and accurate heart rate measurements getting a heart rate monitor and using an accessible fitness app which I am sure are out there would probably be better. I do also wonder how good
