Google and Samsung announced that they have joined forces for a new platform called Health Connect, which developers are planning to sync users’ health data between Android apps and devices. As a result of this cooperation, the health data of users using Samsung Galaxy devices will be synchronized with other Google applications under one roof.
With the Health Connect application announced at the Google I/O 2022 event, Samsung Health, Firbit, Google Fit, MyFitnessPal, Leap Fitness and Withings applications can be synchronized. Although this is the application support for now, it is clear that new applications will join these applications in the near future.
Explaining that Health Connect will support more than 50 types of data, Samsung says that these will include activity, body measurement, cycle tracking, nutrition, sleep tracking and vital data. “We are working with Google and other partners to unleash the full benefits and potential of Health Connect,” said TaeJong Jay Yang, Vice President of Samsung
, saying that Samsung Health will adopt Health Connect later this year. also confirmed. Thus, accurate and optimized data measured on Galaxy Watch devices can be used in other applications. Regarding this issue, Google announced that users can control which application they share all kinds of data with.