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Google Fit has been reached in store as developer preview to compete with Apple’s Healthkit platform. The SDK of the platform is now available for developers which will help them to develop apps for the same. The search engine colossus had introduced Google Fit in its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2014 along with new Android platform named Android L.
Google Fit is the platform will be using in health related wearables like smartwatches and smartphone devices which will be capable of tracking or monitoring health because of their health related features and apps. This is the platform for making health related apps easily.
Company has posted on its developer blog, “At Google I/O we announced Google Fit: an open platform for developers to more easily build fitness apps. Today we're making a preview SDK available to developers so that you can start to build.” It has three sets of APIs which have the ability of fulfilling the developers’ requirements for building apps.
To gather health data, a sensor will be used on Android devices along with some other connected accessories. It can monitor heart rate, physical activities and breathing. The company has also tied up with Nike, Runkeeper, Adidas, HTC, Asus, LG and Motorola to bring this platform for smartphone devices and wearable devices.
Official blog stated, "To get started, download the updated version of Google Play services containing the Google Fit APIs for Android in the Android L Developer Preview Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 system images. Use the Android SDK Manager to download the Google Play services client labeled 'Google Play services for Fit Preview."
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