Posted by Sara Hamilton, Developer Relations
Earlier this yr, we launched Well being Join as a approach for app builders such as you to have early entry to a platform that securely shares well being and health information throughout Android gadgets, with consumer consent. We collaborated with Samsung to construct this platform which simplifies the connectivity between your apps whereas offering centralized privateness controls for customers. We at the moment are making the Well being Join (Beta) app accessible for obtain in Google Play to offer customers a central place to handle their privateness settings with granular controls to see which apps have entry to information at any given time.
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Via the primary wave of integrations, we’ve got seen Well being Join present many key advantages to builders.
Diminished fragmentation makes it simpler to offer customers extra holistic well being insights
By enabling well being and health apps to speak to one another, every app is ready to present a consumer with higher, extra holistic well being insights.
Up to now, builders needed to set up a number of API connections to share information between totally different apps and every integration was pricey to construct and keep. This restricted builders’ information sharing capabilities and made it onerous for customers to unlock this information in order that it could possibly be utilized in numerous apps.
Now, with Well being Join, constructing an integration with a brand new app is so simple as studying in new information from Well being Join, quite than constructing a complete new integration.
For instance, Android customers will now be capable of sync and get credit score for his or her Peloton exercises in apps like Oura, MyFitnessPal, WeightWatchers and Lifesum. Now, by a single integration with Well being Join, Peloton Members may have the choice to share their exercise stats throughout the ecosystem of apps they use to assist their general wellness.
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Standardized information schema ensures information consistency between apps
Well being Join offers a standardized information schema which helps 40+ information sorts throughout 6 classes. The schema is intuitive to make use of and covers a variety of use circumstances, from workouts to sleep monitoring to very important indicators. It solely requires only a few traces of code to learn and write any of those information sorts in Well being Join. Well being Join even helps complicated aggregations to be able to utterly customise your queries to your app’s use case.
“With Well being Join APIs, our engineers have been capable of simply adapt their current structure with the intention to learn and write consumer well being information equivalent to diet, hydration, train, and steps. With this integration, we’re now capable of devour information from any third social gathering utility that additionally writes to Well being Join, increasing our customers’ decisions whereas permitting them extra flexibility to grant granular permissions about which information they need to share”
– Jason Peterson, Chief Expertise Officer of MyFitnessPal
Centralize privateness controls for customers, with much less code
Beforehand, customers needed to navigate to a number of apps to handle information permissions. And, builders needed to construct out permissions administration UIs themselves.
With Well being Join, customers can simply handle permissions in a single place, with granular controls to see which apps are accessing information at any given time.
For builders, Well being Join offers the permissions administration hub and granular permissions UIs out of the field, so you may set this up rapidly.
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For instance, Signos was capable of rapidly arrange permissions checks with Well being Join. “One facet I used to be pleasantly stunned by was the consumer onboarding UX,” stated Signos developer Jake Smith. “A easy, drop-in piece of code units up the permissions so customers can begin reaping the advantages.”
We’re simply getting began
Be a part of the various builders who’ve already built-in with Well being Join and don’t miss out on the chance to develop richer insights in your customers. Try our documentation, useful video tutorials, and code samples – and begin constructing in the present day!
