Living a healthy life is a modern and prevalent trend, which is increasing the market for fitness tracking apps. Basically, tracking apps are designed to track and analyze user daily activity information and notify them about their activity targets and achievements. Built upon the data, a company can offer an excellent mobile solution to customers that allows customers to do more with the data.
No surprise that Google and Apple are working directly on several fronts to piggyback on the opportunity. Whether in terms of wearables, the Internet of things, mobile applications or mobile OS — there is a massive competition between both.
Google introduced its healthcare platform ‘Google Fit’, which utilizes its APIs to track its fitness activities. With iOS 8, Apple launched the Health Kit framework that works alongside its health apps.
Google Fit is a health-tracking platform developed by Google for Android. Google Fit uses sensors in a user’s activity tracker or mobile device to record physical fitness activities (such as walking, cycling, etc.).
In the first part of this article, we will cover the built-in framework provided by Google. To develop such applications, you require technical knowledge and a clear understanding of the components.
The Google Fit APIs for Android are part of Google Play services and are supported in Android 2.3 (API level 9) and higher. Google Fit on Android consists of these APIs:
Leave the other options as they are.
6. Click Finish
Connect to the fitness service
You can watch the part 1 video here:
HealthKit is a central repository for health and fitness data on iPhone and Apple watch. The Healthcare framework was introduced in 2014 alongside iOS 8. It provides a solution for storing, managing, and sharing health and fitness data within new applications with the user’s permission to maintain security.
Accessing & storing health & fitness data
There are three main ways to access data from the HealthKit Store to the fitness service.
Saving Data to HealthKit
You can watch the part 2 video here:
Hope you like our in-depth article on Google Fit and Health Kit framework development process. You can Contact the Mindbowser team for your fitness app development plan.
This Blog was written by Ashvini, Krupa, Kiran, Priyanka and Vikram, members of the Mindbowser mobility team and modified by the Mindbowser Content team for publication purposes.
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