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The Google Fit APIs for Android are part of Google Play
services. The Google Fit APIs are supported on
Android 4.1 (API level 16) and higher. Using these APIs, your app can do the
following:
Read near-real-time and historic data, including data from Bluetooth Low
Energy (BLE) devices.
Record activities.
Associate data with a session.
Set fitness goals.
Read sensor data
If your app provides information about a user's activity, such as their daily
steps, it can be helpful to show near-real-time data about the user’s movements.
The Sensors API provides access to streams of raw data
that contain this information. The data can come from sensors available on the
Android-powered device as well as from sensors in companion devices, such as
wearables.
Record data
If your app needs to gather, store, and sync data about a user's physical
activity, you can use the Recording API. This API stores
health and wellness data using subscriptions. Your app specifies one or more
types of activities to record. Google Fit then stores data of the
specified types in the background even when your app isn't running. It also
restores these subscriptions when the system is restarted.
Figure 1. Google Fit on Android.
Historical data
If you want users to be able to view fitness data from past activities, you can
use the History API. This API provides access to the
historical health and wellness data and lets apps perform bulk operations, such
as inserting, deleting, and reading data.
Sessions
Fitness data can be beneficial by itself, but the data is more useful when you
combine it with additional information about the user’s activity. The Sessions
API bundles health and wellness data, along with
some metadata, into units called sessions. Sessions represent a time interval
during which the user performs a fitness activity.
View and set goals
Your app can help motivate users by showing how their fitness activity compares
to the goals that they've set. The Goals API helps your
app show users the health and fitness goals that they've created.
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