Summary:
Google is shutting down developer access to Google Fit APIs, giving developers until June 30th, 2025 to migrate to Android Health.
Full Story:
Google has announced that it will be shutting down developer access to Google Fit APIs, leaving developers with until June 30th, 2025 to migrate to Android Health. The company stopped accepting new sign-ups for API access on an unspecified date.
Google Fit, the company’s health-tracking app, will still be available for users to track their fitness goals. However, developers will no longer have access to the Google Fit APIs, which allowed them to integrate Google Fit data into their own apps.
Google has been pushing developers to migrate to Android Health, which was launched in 2023 as a unified platform for health and fitness data on Android devices. The company has been encouraging developers to use Android Health for new projects and has been gradually deprecating the Google Fit APIs.
The move to shut down developer access to Google Fit APIs is part of Google’s ongoing efforts to streamline its health and fitness offerings. In recent years, the company has discontinued several health-related products, including Google Fitbit and Google Health.
Google Fit users can continue to use the app to track their fitness goals, but developers will need to migrate to Android Health if they want to continue using Google’s health and fitness data in their apps.
Citations:
* Evolving Health on Android: Migrating from Google Fit APIs to Android Health [https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/05/evolving-health-on-android-migrating-from-google-fit-apis-to-android-health.html]
* Google is shutting down developer access to Google Fit APIs [https://9to5google.com/2024/05/04/google-fit-api-shutdown/]
URLs:
* <https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/05/evolving-health-on-android-migrating-from-google-fit-apis-to-android-health.html>
* <https://9to5google.com/2024/05/04/google-fit-api-shutdown/>