Health Connect data types

Health Connect stores and structures both health and fitness data and medical records data. It's important to understand first what data types and permissions Health Connect offers so that you can plan your app's requirements.

After development, when you prepare to publish your app to the Play Store, you must declare your app's data use as well as declare access to the Health Connect data types that your app uses. Otherwise, users might be prompted with an error message where your app can't access the Health Connect data types because they require special approval.

See Complete the health apps declaration in the Play Console for more information.

Data type categories

Health Connect supports data types that are used across most health and fitness apps to provide as much variety as possible. Health Connect aims to offer a comprehensive view and storage of health and fitness data. These data types fall into the following categories:

Health and fitness data types

Before requesting any permissions, your app must declare them in the manifest. See the Declare permissions section of the Quick start guide for more information.

To read data while your app is in the background, or to read historical data, an additional set of read permissions must be declared separately from data type permissions:

1. Select a Jetpack version

Permission declarations differ between Jetpack versions, make sure to the select the Jetpack version range your app uses.

1.0.0-alpha10 and higher 1.0.0-alpha09 and lower

2. Filter the data types table

The following table contains the full list of data types, each with category, feature flags and guides, and permission declarations.