The Google Health Connect platform takes the next step. Many health and fitness apps now include it.
During the I/O conference last May, Google announced Health Connect, a platform developed in collaboration with Samsung that makes it easier for health and fitness apps to share data with each other while maintaining user privacy. This initiative is evolving today, with the Health Connect app moving out of early access to beta on the Play Store, and several health and fitness apps are rolling out integrations with the platform.
Google Health Connect platform takes the next step
Peloton, Oura, WeightWatchers, MyFitnessPal, Flo, Lifesum, Tonal, Outdooractive and Proov Insight have joined Google and Samsung’s own services: Fitbit, Google Fit and Samsung Health. These integrations mean that when you exercise on the app, you can share your data through the Health Connect ecosystem. The Oura and WeightWatchers apps can, for example, track your Peloton sessions.
Many health and fitness apps now include it.
Google and Samsung have made it easier for health and fitness app developers to access this information by creating a standardized data schema. It supports over 40 data types in six categories: Activity, Body Metrics, Cycle Tracking, Nutrition, Sleep, and Vital Signs. Google says it only takes a few lines of code for apps to read and write these types of data through Health Connect.
One of the main benefits for users is that they will be able to manage permissions for all these integrations in one place. Health Connect offers fine-grained control over the types of data that each third-party app has access to. You can also prevent all apps from accessing your Health Connect data with a few taps.