Turmoil is approaching in the field of health applications and Smart Watchesone of the platforms that allows data to be unified is going to close: Google marks the death of the Fit API, a health platform widely used in Wear OS, Amazfit and even Xiaomi wearables. If you use Google Fit to synchronize your health data, you will have to look for an alternative.
Google created its own health platform with which to not only record data from smartphones that install the app, but also from those wrist devices equipped with Wear OS. Google Fit, announced at Google I/O 2014, aimed to become the Android global platform for health data, a real alternative to Apple Health for iOS that, unlike it, allows you to record activities from your smartphone. Now, it has become another victim of Google’s graveyard.
Google Fit already has a death date: June 30, 2025
If you use Google Fit to sync your data from an Amazfit watch with your Google account, use the platform to measure your activities, or use it as support of all your sports and health valuesthe bad news is that you will have to find an alternative: Google is going to close access to the API on June 30.
Health Connect or Connected Health is the evolution of Google Fit, although it does not work in the same way, since lacks cloud backup. That is, it only allows information to be moved on the flight and as long as the services are compatible with the aforementioned Health Connect. Does not save health data.
Google has officially announced the end of the application and the API, both developers and end users will no longer have access to Google Fit as of June 30, 2025. Although there will be a transition period beforehand, the deadlines are as follows:
- May 2024. Google announces the end of Google Fit, during Google I/O it will expand the details.
- From June 2024 to May 2025. Migration period for all developers and manufacturers to move from Google Fit sync to Health Connect.
- June 30, 2025. Google will permanently close the Google Fit APIs.
From now on, a migration process begins for all manufacturers and developers to move their synchronization services from Google Fit to Health Connect. Always with an important impediment: since Health Connect is not a storage service, You will always need another platform to save and consult health data.
If the health device uses Google Fit as a data backup, it will lose this function if the manufacturer does not update it
Google has not updated Fit for a long time, in its own devices it relies on Fitbit and most manufacturers use their own health services; like Mi Fitness on Xiaomi or Zepp on Amazfit. Even so, Google Fit was an excellent alternative for those of us who also wanted to have the data in our Google account. That’s about to end.
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