Health & Fitness Google Developer Newsletter - August 2026

The Google Health API is available! As a reminder, on September 30, 2026, the legacy Fitbit Web API will be turned down. All integrations using the legacy API must complete their migration prior to this deadline and your users migrate their tokens to Google OAuth to ensure uninterrupted data continuity for your users.

Here's an overview of what we've introduced with the new Google Health API:

  • Standardization & New Features: Consolidates 100+ endpoints into simplified data type bundles, featuring auto-subscribing webhooks and availability of intraday data for all relevant data types.
  • Reconciled Stream: Automatically merges overlapping data from multiple sources for a more cohesive view of your users' health.
  • Performance for AI: Re-architected for high-performance data retrieval by adding gRPC alongside REST data types.
  • Identity and Security: Google OAuth 2.0 replaces Fitbit Authorization, simplifying code via standard libraries and centralizing user permissions.

Explore our comprehensive reference guides, guided codelabs, and the Google Health API Parity Tool to map endpoints and begin planning your transition today.

To support developer velocity and the fast-growing trend of health intelligence, we have launched the Google Health API CLI, a dedicated command-line tool built specifically for the new Google Health API. As developers increasingly build automated workflows and personal health co-pilots, the Google Health CLI is engineered to be agent-friendly. We have shaped the command outputs, error messaging structures, and interface discoverability so that an AI agent can drive and interact with the CLI autonomously. Engineers get the same benefits, enjoying a clean, streamlined command surface that drastically cuts down development, testing, and debugging times.

The CLI enables efficient access to request structures, test data type collection parameters, and verify schema compliance locally on your machine before moving to production.

The Google Health Status Dashboard provides real-time status and availability information for the services that are part of Google Health. It can be referenced by developers and site reliability engineers to verify the external status of Google Health and confirm whether any ongoing incident has been resolved.

Did you know we have Health Connect videos that cover the basics of an integration? No? Well now you can find them on our new home page by easily filtering the content in the Featured guides and resources section. Select the "Video" format option and start watching!

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