# Features - Starting Out
**URL:** https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518
**Category:** Get Help
**Created:** [August 27, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518 "2021-08-27T18:34:03Z")
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### Author:  [@MattBarnes](https://forum.adalo.com/u/MattBarnes)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/1 "2021-08-27T18:34:03Z")
I just signed up for Adalo, but I would like to gather more information about features before I commit to any paid plan. I am a student researcher at the University of Richmond, and I am looking to build a small scale ios application to run an experiment this coming spring. The app will be designed to increase exercise frequency on campus and there will need to be several versions of the app to test different features on different groups of students.
Some of the features I will need to integrate are: a customizable calendar, live location based notifications, a badge system, and integrated forms. Could you please tell me if this functionality is possible through the platform? The app would run actively for approximately 6-12 weeks in the spring and ideally have several hundred student users during that time.
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### Author:  [@James\_App\_Maker](https://forum.adalo.com/u/James_App_Maker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/2 "2021-08-27T19:00:35Z")
Hi Matt,
Welcome to the Community! 🥳
1. Yes, there is a calendar component available in the marketplace. It is very customizable( colors, language, etc.)
2. Notifications yes, but GPS is not available yet; maybe in the spring, it will be available! 🙂
3. Badges, you can check out a cloneable kit for that [here](https://www.adalo.com/cloneables/badge-system).
4.) There is a form component available.
Also, I would check out this [exercise](https://www.adalo.com/cloneables/coaching-app) app in the app templates; it might help with your app.
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### Author:  [@MattBarnes](https://forum.adalo.com/u/MattBarnes)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/3 "2021-08-27T20:17:07Z")
Thank you for all the help! Those features look like they would be perfect for what I need. For work arounds for the GPS, is there potential to have a notification trigger if the device connects to a certain wifi router? (I know that is super specific, sorry). Or, potentially for me to implement my own code to use GPS?
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### Author:  [@James\_App\_Maker](https://forum.adalo.com/u/James_App_Maker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/4 "2021-08-27T20:41:33Z")
No problem! This probably would be possible within a custom component.
This react native package might help you get started.
> **[GitHub - react-native-netinfo/react-native-netinfo: React Native Network Info...](https://github.com/react-native-netinfo/react-native-netinfo)**
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> React Native Network Info API for Android & iOS. Contribute to react-native-netinfo/react-native-netinfo development by creating an account on GitHub.
tbh, coding components are not that hard, you just need to learn about of react native (you can learn from youtube tutorials) and you should be good to go! just make sure that when you publish you publish as private. this way, everyone in your team will be able to access it.
Check out this link, (you’ll need to scroll down to see how to develop)
> **[No-Code Meet Code in Adalo’s Component Marketplace](https://www.adalo.com/marketplace)**
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> The Component Marketplace features components for your Adalo no-code app made by third party developers. React Native Developers can now create components for the marketplace or for personal use.
Good luck with your app, can’t wait to see the outcome of it! 🙂
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### Author:  [@James\_App\_Maker](https://forum.adalo.com/u/James_App_Maker)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/5 "2021-08-27T20:43:22Z")
This post might be a nice workaround for GPS.
> [@Location GPS component](https://forum.adalo.com/t/location-gps-component/12021/5):
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> Hey Kato, You could use custom component to pick up IP info. For example NoCodeAPI and RapidAPI make this quite easy for you to do… It’s not going to be GPS level accuracy and if they use a VPN it will throw this info off… but it may work. I done a quick custom action to pull current user data and this is what you will get back based on IP info… { 13 items “area”:{ 3 items “code”: “US-LA” “geonameid”: 4331987 “name”: “Louisiana” This will return the IP address of the client with all…
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### Author:  [@MattBarnes](https://forum.adalo.com/u/MattBarnes)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/6 "2021-08-27T22:28:34Z")
Thank you so much for all the help, I think both of those will work! I won’t be rolling it out to the spring, but I’ll put out something when it goes live!!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.adalo.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/features-starting-out/16518/7 "2021-09-06T22:29:05Z")
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