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I'd love to hear from some iOS developers who have played around with HealthKit, and get their take its strengths and weaknesses
by wiremine 12y ago
I'd love to hear from some iOS developers who have played around with HealthKit, and get their take its strengths and weaknesses
- daigoba66 12y agoI got to look at the API docs during the first beta. I'm sure things have changed and more features have been added so take my analysis with a grain of salt. The HealthKit API is basically just a shared database with specific functions and structures used for measuring fitness units (e.g. time, distance, steps, heart rate, blood pressures, etc). There's a permissions model for granting read/write access to the various counters. It can also track some vitals (height, weight) and emergency contact information. And that's pretty much it. I don't think HealthKit is really designed to do more than facilitate the storage and sharing of personal fitness data. It should have been named FitnessKit.