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Health Connect is an Android platform that allows health and fitness apps to use
the same on-device data, within a unified ecosystem.
For Android developers, it provides an API for reading and writing a user's
on-device health and fitness data. For Android users, it offers a place to
exercise control over which apps have read and or write access to their health
and fitness data.
The Android ecosystem includes a broad range of devices and platforms,
including smartphones, wearables, and numerous health, fitness, and wellness
apps. To accommodate these technologies, Android APIs feature a wide variety of
data types. Accordingly, Android users want to exercise strict and convenient
control over their health and fitness data from a single data repository.
Health Connect meets users' needs in numerous ways:
- It enhances overall knowledge of their health and fitness activities.
- It allows users to gain an overview of how their health and fitness data is
stored and shared.
- It provides quick and convenient access to various privacy controls.
Health Connect features a comprehensive range of data types
that allows users to track all of their health and wellness activities,
across the following key data categories:
- Activity captures any activity that a user does, such as running,
swimming and cycling.
- Body Measurement captures common data related to a user's body, such as
weight, or basal metabolic rate.
- Cycle Tracking captures menstrual cycles and related data points, such
as the binary result of an ovulation test.
- Nutrition captures hydration and nutrition data types, including
optional fields such as calories, sugar intake and magnesium content.
- Sleep captures interval data related to the length and type of a user's
sleep.
- Vitals captures essential information about the user's general health.
It includes everything from blood glucose to body temperature and blood
oxygen saturation.
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Last updated 2024-09-04 UTC.
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