Google has a new health and fitness app. Google Fit and Fitbit are joining now Health Connect by Android (Connected Health in Spanish), which launched today on Google Play in early access so that early adopters can try out this new tool right now.
The app connected health It’s about providing an easy and simple way to share data between your sports and health apps without compromising privacy. As we will see below, a new history and permissions manager for our health and physical activity data
This is Health Connect
connected health It will store all our data and our physical and health activity in one place, which will allow us to synchronize all this data with the rest of the health and sports applications that we have installed.
In the near future, compatible sports and health applications will request authorization to access data from connected health. As users, we can decide what data each application can read or write through its authorization manager
connected health It will manage all our data on physical activity, body measurements, sleep, vital signs, cycle tracking and nutrition, showing the history of the recordings and allowing us to partially or completely delete the history.
The app itself won’t sync your data to the cloud, it works offline and is open source. It will be the connected applications that will take care of synchronizing our data in the cloud. The application will be on Android 13 a new adjustment of the operating system.
As expected, GoogleFit there Fitbit will be among the first compatible applications, which will also be joined Samsung Health, fitness jump, MyFitnessPal there Withings among others.
This means that in the future we will be able to use the Samsung Health app to be able to consult the data of a Fitbit bracelet, to cite an example.
Health Connect by Android (early access)
- Developer: Google LLC
- Download at: google play
- Price : Free with in-app purchases
- Category: health and wellbeing
Through | 9to5Google
