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Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set for June 2025

9to5google.com Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android & Wear OS apps go unannounced

Earlier this week, the company detailed how the "Google Fit APIs have been deprecated" and that the shutdown is set for June 30, 2025.

Google’s migration guide for developers lists what they’re supposed to switch to on Android phones and Wear OS. 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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Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android & Wear OS apps go unannounced

9to5google.com /2024/05/04/google-fit-api-shutdown/

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Add it to the pile.
If I were choosing a business to work with at this point, it wouldn't be Google. They might just kill off whatever service I need at any time.
- I'm dreading the day they kill voice. It's such a convenient (and free) way to have a 2nd number on your cell.
  
  I was so upset when I subscribed to Google Fi and they told me I couldn't have my Voice account as well. Ugh.
  Oh well, sometimes it's better to rip off that bandaid. I've further de-Googled since then and continue to do so slowly.
- Well the current deprecation is the Android APIs. You can still use the web APIs.
  
  For now
  
  There are two kinds of Google APIs when it comes to Android: those already deprecated (stable), and those yet to be deprecated (early alpha)
- Kinda sick of this meme. It's not dead, it was replaced by Health Connect.
  Google Fit was the 'hub' for fitness-related data for all apps. Developers could link their app to Fit so users had one place for all their health data.
  Android took over Fit's role and called it Health Connect, which is now out of beta. Health Connect is the API that developers now use to store their data in one centralised location on the user's device.
  If anything, this is just a logical next step. Should Google have just started with Health Connect? Obviously. but I think it works better as an Android service and not a Google one.
  Google Fit is sticking around (for now), as a user app for tracking fitness. It uses Health Connect API to store data, and now other developers need to use Health Connect instead of the Fit API.

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