Now Android health apps like Peloton and MyFitnessPal can share information by way of Health Connect

Android has released Health Connect into public beta, a brand new app that assimilates information from throughout eligible well being and health apps by way of a single platform.

In an instance supplied by Google, Peloton members can use it to sync and get credit score for his or her Peloton exercises in apps similar to MyFitnessPal, WeightWatchers, and Lifesum along with sharing exercise information with different health apps. It additionally provides a central place to simply handle particular person permissions and privateness settings.

There are 10 notable well being, health, and wellness apps built-in with the companies thus far, together with FitBit, Oura, and Flo alongside MyFitnessPal and Peloton. Health Connect was first introduced in May, with entry initially restricted to builders constructing the brand new integrations.

Health Connect was created in collaboration with Samsung to assist standardize information sharing between well being and health apps, changing earlier sharing integrations that required builders to create API connections for every app. Not solely was this costly and labor intensive to take care of but additionally it made it tough for customers to unlock their information to ensure that it to sync with different apps. 

Now, Health Connect helps over 40 information varieties throughout six classes and solely requires a couple of traces of code, offering a standardized information schema for builders. Not solely does this simplify app connectivity but additionally it gives customers with extra centralized privateness controls, permitting customers to watch which apps have entry to particular information at any given time.

Health Connect is accessible to obtain as a public beta by way of the Google Play Store, although no point out has been made concerning a full public launch. Google beforehand talked about that the app can be preinstalled on new Android devices someday later this yr.