Mobile applications supporting healthy lifestyle

Abstract

The quality of life is continually improved by various activities and applications supporting the style of living by sports, healthy food, or other activities. In this paper, we propose a mobile application that supports healthy lifestyle. The FitAndWin application is launching fitness challenges and keeps food and calories logs. The application integrates Facebook features and uses Windows Azure as a cloud solution for ubiquitous access. The new approach launching challenges on Facebook contributes to adding motivation for people in having an active style of life with best results. The paper describes the design and implementation of the application and presents the advantages of the solution.