New health app from Google and Samsung: Health Connect

Google and Samsung have signed a new collaboration for Android users and developers. Aiming to provide ease of use by collecting users’ health data in a single application, these two companies developed a new application called Health Connect.

Samsung Health and Google Fit supports Health Connect app

Google and Samsung at Google I/O 2022, a new app aimed at simplifying fitness and health app interoperability announced their development. With the Health Connect app, Google and Samsung aim to simplify the connection between apps and allow app developers to more easily combine health and fitness data from different sources.

Health Connect supports a variety of general health and fitness data categories, such as activity, sleep tracking, body metrics, vitals, heart rate, and blood pressure. In cases where there are multiple fitness apps providing the same data, users can decide which resource they want to prioritize. Chris Wilk, Google Product Manager

, said in a blog post about the Health Connect app, “Developers, with user permission, use standardized schema and API behavior in Health Connect. You can securely read and write data to and from . Users will have full control over their privacy settings with granular controls to see which apps are requesting access to data at any given time. All data in Health Connect is secure and encrypted.” gave his words.

Apps adopting Health Connect are currently Samsung Health, Fitbit, Google Fit, MyFitnessPal, Leap Fitness and Withings apps. However, more apps are expected to support Health Connect in the future.