Aloha,
Two years ago I wrote an iOS app to monitor the diabetes of our son. This app (GlucoTracker) is written in Swift using SwiftUI and I still use it today on my iPhone and my AppleWatch.
After I've created that app I decided it would be nice to also have such an app on my Mac and so I wrote a Macos app using Swift and SwiftUI (GlucoStatus) that I run on all of my Macs.
Last week I thought by myself it might be a nice exercise to port this native Swift Macos app to JavaFX. Well I was really surprised how easy it was to rewrite this app in Java (I'm just more used to Java than to Swift which might be the main reason for this).
So the app gets it's data from a Nightscout server that you have to setup to monitor the blood glucose values. And in addition you somehow need to feed the blood glucose data into the Nightscout server which usually is done by using a specific sensor like the Dexcom G6, the Freestyle Libre, Enlight or others.
Meaning to say without a Nightscout server my app is useless.
But if you have such a server in place you should be able to use the app.
So the main screen looks as follows:
In the upper (colored) part you will see the current value in large letters. Below it you will find the 5 last delta values which can help you to figure out the current trend (this assumes that the values from you sensor will be updated in intervals of 5 minutes.
Then there is the date and time of the last update and the average of the selected range.
On top of the window you can select the range that should be visualized and used for the statistics.
To setup the application you can click on the little button with the gear on the upper right corner and it will show you the following screen:
In the preferences screen you first of all have to set the url of your nightscout server (e.g. https://YOUR-DOMAIN.herokuapp.com).
In addition you can define if you would like to get notifications for different situations (e.g. the value is low, or acceptable low etc.). Except for the "too low" and "too high" situations you can define whether you would like to get a notification. For all situations you can enable/disable an additional sound that will be played with the notification.
Then you can also define intervals for situations like "too low" or "too high". This means that for example if your blood glucose value is too high the app will show you a notification with the given interval (e.g. every 5 minutes or every 20 minutes etc.)
In the lower part of the preferences screen you can then also define the different ranges that you would like to use (e.g. normal values should be within the range of 70-110 mg/dl etc.)
You could also switch to another unit that is more often used in the US which is mmol/l instead of mg/dl.
On the main screen you will also find 3 icons in the colored area. The rounded arrow on the upper right corner will reload the values (this is usually not needed, only in case you would manually update the values).
The app pings the Nightscout server every minute to check for the latest value.
The icon on the lower right will show you the "time in range" chart which looks as follows:
This chart will simply show you how often your blood glucose values have been in the defined ranges in the given time range (defined by the buttons on top of the main screen e.g. 7 days, 24 hours etc.)
The last icon that you will find on the lower left corner will show you a pattern view of the values from the last week and it looks as follows:
On top you will find the HbAc1 value that is calculated from the last 30 days. Below that you will find a list of patterns that have been identified by the app.
And at the bottom you will see a chart based on the values from the last week that shows the median of all values of a given hour of the day. This makes it possible to identify times where your values are too high or too low. The gray shaded area covers the percentiles between 10 and 90%.
Like I said in the beginning the main reason for doing this was to see how easy it is to port an existing Swift app to JavaFX and give it more or less the same look and feel.
Because I originally created the app for Macos, I did not create a version that looks like a native Windows version yet but it will always look like on the images above.
Because Macos has some special controls (e.g. the Switch), I created a little helper library called AppleFX that you can also find on github and maven central. It does not cover all available controls but only the ones I needed for this app. But if I will find more time I will probably add more Macos controls to the libray.
Be aware that you also need my Toolbox and ToolboxFX libraries to use the AppleFX lib.
As always you can find the source code and also the binaries over at github.
There are no versions for Linux yet because this is again an app that runs in the background and sits in the system tray. Unfortunately this is not really supported on Ubuntu at the moment which is the reason why I did not created installers yet. But I will work on that and will probably add them in the future.
This does not mean that it does not work on Ubuntu, you can run it, create the installers and so on but it does not behave like it should because it should sit in the menu bar and that does not really work yet.
Here are also the links to the latest release:
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