Back at I/O in May, Announced , a platform where it worked with Samsung to enable health and fitness apps to more easily share data with each other while maintaining privacy measures. that initiative is as the Health Connect app moved from early access to beta on the Play Store, while various health and fitness apps are rolling out integrations.
, , , , , , Outdooractive and Proov Insight Google and Samsung own services: , Google Fit and Samsung Health. Integrations mean that when you work out in one app, you can share your stats across the Health Connect ecosystem. The likes of Oura and WeightWatchers will be able to take into account your Peloton workouts, for example.
Google and Samsung have made it easier for health and fitness app developers to access such information by creating a standardized data schema. This supports into six categories: activity, body measurements, cycle tracking, nutrition, sleep, and vital signs. Google notes that it only takes a few lines of code for apps to read and write any of these types of data via Health Connect.
One of the key benefits for users is that they will be able to manage permissions for all of these integrations in one place. Health Connect includes granular controls over the types of data each third-party app can access. You can also block all apps from accessing Health Connect data with a couple of taps.
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