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Google Fit Gets a Big UI Update With Two Health Focuses

Kellen August 21, 2018

Google Fit is getting a brand new UI this week as well as a new focus on how you can stay healthy. Well, two new focuses. According to a Google announcement for the "new" Google Fit, your fitness goals will now be measured by your Move Minutes and Heart Points...

Google Fit Updated With Real-Time Stats for Runs, Nutrition Monitoring

Tim November 19, 2015 19

In an update for the Google Fit app, users can now get real-time stats for their activities such as running, complete with data for elevation, speed, pace, route, and more. In addition, for those into strength training who happen to own an Android Wear watch,...

Google Fit Gets Distance and Calories Burned Tracking, Fitness History, Widget and Watch Face, in Update

Kellen May 13, 2015 35

Google Fit received a feature-packed update today on Android. The update introduces distance and calories burned tracking, along with an improved fitness history, new widget, and a watch face, so that you can always stay on top of your goals. In order to...

Google Play Services 7.3 Allows for Multiple Wear Device Connections, More

Kellen April 28, 2015 32

Google announced an update to Google Play Services (v7.3) today that introduces new Android Wear and Google Fit APIs to help you all build better experiences into your apps that use either service. With Wear, Google is giving us the ability to connect...

Tomawatchi is a Google Fit-Powered Tamagotchi-like Pet on Your Android Device

Tim February 19, 2015 26

If the idea of having to care for a pet in order to get your lazy butt moving excites you, then you will need this new app called Tomawatchi. Utilizing the Goole Fit APIs, this application reminds us quite a bit of the old Tamagotchi digital pet toys from back...

My Tracks Gains Google Fit Integration

Kyle December 15, 2014 7

Before last Friday, Google's My Tracks inhabited a shrinking subset of fitness apps which merely record, not offer insight into, your workout routine. It could use GPS to track runs and walks over a set period of time and upload the results to Google Drive,...

Google Fit Update Brings Support for Manual Entry of 100 New Activities

Tim December 11, 2014 15

An update has been pushed to Google Fit this afternoon, one which brings manual entry support for 100 new activities, as well as an experimental feature for users of Android Wear. The experimental feature, which was more than likely highly requested by users,...

Google Announces Fit Developer Challenge in Partnership with adidas, Polar, and Withings

Kyle November 19, 2014 11

Give them incentive, and developers will build awesome things. That is the premise of the Google Fit Developer Challenge, which the eponymous search giant announced yesterday. In partnership with lifestyle companies adidas, Polar, and Withings, Google's...