🚶 Build a Step Counter App with Flutter and Accelerometers

In this tutorial, I’ll build a step counter app using Flutter and Accelerometers. The app will track your steps in real time using the device’s accelerometer, save daily progress, with simple, beginner-friendly concepts.

Don’t worry if you’ve never worked with sensors before. I’ll explain everything step by step without complicated jargon.

🛠️ What You’ll Learn How to use the accelerometer to detect steps. How to store step data locally with SharedPreferences. How to display today’s progress with a circular goal tracker.

🧩 What we’ll use sensors_plus → lets us read the accelerometer (tiny chip in your device that detects movement). shared_preferences → helps us save the steps so they don’t reset when you close the app. intl → formats the date (like "2025-09-04"). Flutter UI → to show today’s steps and a weekly chart.

🚀 Next Ideas

You can extend this by: Adding step goals that users can change. Storing more history (monthly view). Adding calories burned or distance walked estimations. Syncing with cloud storage for multi-device support.