Posted by Sara Hamilton, Developer Relations
Earlier this yr, we launched Well being Join as a manner for app builders such as you to have early entry to a platform that securely shares well being and health knowledge throughout Android units, 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 are actually making the Well being Join (Beta) app out there for obtain in Google Play to provide customers a central place to handle their privateness settings with granular controls to see which apps have entry to knowledge 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.
Lowered fragmentation makes it simpler to provide 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.
Prior to now, builders needed to set up a number of API connections to share knowledge between completely different apps and every integration was expensive to construct and preserve. This restricted builders’ knowledge sharing capabilities and made it arduous for customers to unlock this knowledge in order that it might be utilized in several apps.
Now, with Well being Join, constructing an integration with a brand new app is so simple as studying in new knowledge from Well being Join, slightly than constructing a complete new integration.
For instance, Android customers will now have the ability to sync and get credit score for his or her Peloton exercises in apps like Oura, MyFitnessPal, WeightWatchers and Lifesum. Now, by way of a single integration with Well being Join, Peloton Members could 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 knowledge schema ensures knowledge consistency between apps
Well being Join supplies a standardized knowledge schema which helps 40+ knowledge sorts throughout 6 classes. The schema is intuitive to make use of and covers a variety of use circumstances, from workout routines to sleep monitoring to very important indicators. It solely requires only a few strains of code to learn and write any of those knowledge sorts in Well being Join. Well being Join even helps advanced aggregations so to fully customise your queries to your app’s use case.
“With Well being Join APIs, our engineers had been capable of simply adapt their present structure in an effort to learn and write consumer well being knowledge akin to vitamin, hydration, train, and steps. With this integration, we’re now capable of eat knowledge from any third celebration utility that additionally writes to Well being Join, increasing our customers’ decisions whereas permitting them extra flexibility to grant granular permissions about which knowledge 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 knowledge 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 knowledge at any given time.
For builders, Well being Join supplies the permissions administration hub and granular permissions UIs out of the field, so you’ll be able to set this up shortly.
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For instance, Signos was capable of shortly 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 right now!
