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Skamper
Skamper is a mobile app for runners and trail enthusiasts, helping users track activities, discover new routes, and monitor progress. It analyses distance, pace, elevation, and route difficulty, offering GPS tracking, detailed maps, and performance insights to enhance outdoor exploration safely and effectively.
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Trail and Route Tracking
Skamper offers real-time trail tracking with data on distance, elevation, and pace. It analyses terrain difficulty and saves routes, allowing users to revisit favourites or explore new challenges.
GPS Hiking
With precise GPS tracking, Skamper provides detailed trail maps and live location updates. Hikers can navigate confidently, explore new paths, and share their location with friends for added safety.
Route Planner
Skamper’s route planner lets users create custom running and hiking routes with checkpoints. Whether for solo workouts or group events, routes can be tailored by difficulty, distance, and elevation.
Challenge
Advanced feature implementation
Developing Skamper involved complex features like real-time location tracking, dynamic map rendering with live race lines, and voice notifications — each demanding precise performance and seamless integration.
Tailored solutions for specific audiences
The app also included specialised functions for junior participants, which posed unique challenges and required innovative, user-centric solutions to ensure accessibility and engagement.
Solution
Within three months, CodeLeap successfully developed Skamper’s mobile app for iOS and Android and launched it on both App Stores. The key features of the solution include:
User-friendly interface
A well-designed and intuitive interface that enables users to effortlessly create, manage, and join running or trail events with just a few taps.
Real-time map tracking
A dynamic live map that displays the real-time locations of all participants during an event, ensuring better coordination and engagement.
In-app messaging system
A built-in chat function that allows seamless communication between participants before, during, and after an event.
Custom routes & checkpoints
The ability to design personalised event routes with custom checkpoints, providing organisers with greater flexibility and control.
Safety alert system
A dedicated safety feature that enables participants to send instant alerts to others if they require assistance, ensuring a secure experience.
Fitness app integration
A dedicated safety feature that enables participants to send instant alerts to others if they require assistance, ensuring a secure experience.
Within months of launching on the Apple App Store and Google Play, Skamper reached thousands of downloads across both platforms. The app quickly gained traction among running and cycling communities, with users praising its
intuitive design
and social features that enhance group activities and outdoor experiences.
Tech Stack
The tech chosen was our speciality, enabling fast development of performant user interfaces and a reliable infrastructure. Skamper is available now on iOS, Android, and all modern web browsers.
Front-end
React-Native
JavaScript
Objective-C
Back-end
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
Services
AWS
Firebase
Sentry
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