Google, Samsung Launch Health Connect to Sync Fitness Data Between Apps

Google and Samsung have teamed up for Well being Join, a platform that permits the creation of Android-based well being and health experiences.

Well being Join takes the type of a brand new set of APIs (utility programming interfaces), which permit builders to securely entry information from completely different applications to sync and monitor it throughout apps and units.

“With the brand new Well being Join API, customers could have a complete set of controls to handle their well being and health information throughout apps,” Samsung Govt VP TaeJong Jay Yang wrote in an organization announcement(Opens in a brand new window), teasing greater than 50 supported information varieties together with train, sleep, diet, coronary heart fee, blood strain, physique measurements, and extra.

“This is not only a proof of idea,” he continued. “We’re working alongside Google and different companions to understand the total advantages and potential of Well being Join.” Samsung Well being, Google Match, and Fitbit will even undertake the function, launched at this month’s Google I/O convention.

“We’re constructing this new unified platform in collaboration with Samsung to simplify connectivity between apps,” Chris Wilk, senior product supervisor at Google, stated in a weblog put up(Opens in a brand new window). Google has been working with MyFitnessPal, Leap Health, and Withings on an early entry program. “Well being Join suits in with Google’s wider efforts to assist billions of individuals be more healthy, utilizing our platforms and know-how to attach and convey extra which means to well being data,” Wilk added.

Centralized privateness controls permit of us to present permission solely to these apps they need sharing on-device, encrypted information. Builders, in the meantime, can entry that data to be used of their applications.

Well being Join is now accessible to builders(Opens in a brand new window), who’re invited to take a look at the API information, obtain the SDK, discover code samples on Github, and join the open beta by way of Google Play.