• Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    6 months ago

    But in typical Google fashion, the replacement is inferior and doesn’t have the same features

    However, there is no replacement for the Goals API that lets Google Fit users set “how many steps and heart points they want to aim for each day.”

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      6 months ago

      Come on now, that’s not just a Google problem and you know it, no need to shit on Google for something damn near every tech company does. Google does their fair share of shitty things, this isn’t really one of them.

    • realbadat@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      Health connect doesn’t set your step count goals, because what it does in the back end (because that’s what it is, the back end API) is set a way to read and write that data.

      The front end, Google Fit, also connects to health connect on the back end. And the Fit app is not given a shutdown here, just the API it also uses in the back end.

      I suspect Google will stop developing Fit, as they kind of already have. However, all these varieties of other apps out there (Fitbit, Withings Health Mate, Samsung Health, MyFitnessPal, etc) can use health connect data, and do allow you to set goals. They use the same data, and now are more interoperable with Health Connect than they were with the Fit API.