Displaying step count on screen

[mattblank11]

Hey team!

This may be an extremely dumb question, but how do you display step counts on the screen?

I'm able to use AppleHealthKit.getStepCount to get the step count, but if I try to return the step count and display it on the screen it returns a null value. I even tried async / await to no avail.

I'm a Python dev who is trying to build a really crude app that gets step counts but feel like a giant dummy here...

Thanks so much!
Matt

[lucaspbordignon]

Hey @mattblank11! Welcome to the project 👋🏾

Regarding the question, you just need to make sure that you're requesting the user's permission before accessing the data. You can read more about that here

In your case, you need the AppleHealthKit.Constants.Permissions.StepCount. Could you check that?

Also, if that still doesn't work, we have a method that captures step count samples from multiple dates, called getDailyStepCountSamples()

In the case of the second works, we might have a potential bug on getStepCount()

[mattblank11]

Thanks @lucaspbordignon!

I figured out the issue - I needed to use hooks to change the state of a variable containing my step count so that I could display it on the screen. If there's a different solution, I'm all ears!

Appreciate the help!