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If I'm not mistaken, this might be just about the best Killed By Google ever? Google Fit is a health data service offered by Google, with all of the health dat
by denismi 2y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this might be just about the best Killed By Google ever?
Google Fit is a health data service offered by Google, with all of the health data stored under your Google account on Google's servers. Its API is also the defacto means of interchange on the Android platform, so if you want the measurements of your smart scales on App A to sync over to your calorie counting App B (assuming the two services don't have their own direct integration), you would hand over your measurements to Google's Fit service and then have the other app read it from Google.
If I understand this correctly, Health Connect is a device-local API. App A saves the measurement to this local data store on your phone, and App B reads from that, without your measurements ever hitting Google's servers?
That seems much better.
- naasking 2y agoWhat if you change or lose your phone?
- pmontra 2y agoDaily encrypted backup to Google Drive, like WhatsApp?
- datadrivenangel 2y agoLocal-first with cloud backup. Customer wins because everything can be local and you can extract it all, google/apple also wins because they get convenience style lock-in effects while being able to say that it's not lock-in.
- naasking 2y agoI wish there was a simple and cheap off the shelf home server that could do this for laypeople, and backup photos etc. without relying on Google or Apple, but it doesn't really exist. Synology and QNAP and such get close, but they're still pricey and their backup options are limited. I've had Synology, and the big problem there was that each upgrade erased my photo database and albums and invalidated all of the links I sent out. It's pointless to rely on these.
- aborsy 2y agoPerhaps in major upgrades. Even there, scan the database again. Not sure how tags are handled. For personal use, the links are usually needed for a week or two.
- naasking 2y agoI have a large photo library. I had facial recognition setup on the photos as well, and categorized albums and such. I went through two DSM upgrades, and each of them erased all of this, and each subsequent version of the photo software became worse and had fewer features. No more.
- dariosalvi78 2y agoit's the same as healthkit basically. The fact that the 2 APIs are converging is good news for us programmers. Disclaimer: I am the author of this https://github.com/dariosalvi78/cordova-plugin-health https://github.com/dariosalvi78/cordova-plugin-health