Google plans to replace Google Fit with Android Health, developers need to prepare for migration in advance

Recently, on May 6, it is said that Google has announced an important notice on its official blog, saying that it will officially launch the Android Health platform in June 2024 to replace the existing Google Fit exercise recording API. Google recommends that relevant developers plan and start migration work as early as possible.

Since 2022, Google has been continuously increasing its investment in the Android Health platform, committed to solving the problem of platform fragmentation and optimizing the development process. According to Google’s official statement, the company is integrating Google Fit’s development capabilities into the Android Health platform in order to build a “cross-platform seamless environment” for developers and users.

After data reduction and understanding, the newly launched Android Health API has more advantages than the Google Fit API. Not only can it record the "number of steps, walking distance and calories burned" without verifying the user's Google account, but it is also more optimized in terms of battery consumption. In addition, the Android Health API also provides developers with the ability to obtain user data over the past 10 days, and can seamlessly integrate with a large number of third-party applications in the Android ecosystem.

Google has announced that the Google Fit API will stop serving on June 30, 2025. This decision is made to allow developers enough time to complete the migration to the Android Health platform. From now on, the Google Fit API has stopped accepting new user registrations.

Google has carefully adjusted the Android Health API, which represents the company’s “future development direction.” In addition to Google's own watches and products from its subsidiary Fitbit, well-known manufacturers such as Withings, Peloton, and Lifesum have begun to develop new products compatible with Android Health.

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