{"id":68617,"date":"2014-06-25T20:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=68617"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:37:31","slug":"google-io-2014-google-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-io-2014-google-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google I\/O 2014: Google Fit, a platform for tracking health and fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is combating Apple&#8217;s <a title=\"Everything you need to know about iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healthkit<\/a> with its own health and fitness tracking platform. Google Fit allows apps and devices to create a <strong>fitness profile<\/strong> for users, giving app developers a <strong>central hub<\/strong> where they can push their information to.<\/p>\n<p>By logging data from all the different sensors included in various fitness trackers and Google&#8217;s own <a title=\"Google I\/O 2014: Android Wear is Google's smartwatch, now available to order\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-io-2014-android-wear-shipping-today\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Wear smartwatches<\/a>, Google Fit can compile the data to give users health related recommendations. Google Fit will be smart, <strong>analyzing your activity<\/strong> and providing recommendations on eating habits and your workout.<\/p>\n<p>Google has partnered with popular fitness brands like Adidas, Nike, Basis, and more, and widely used running apps <a title=\"Runtastic for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/runtastic.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Runtastic<\/a> and <a title=\"RunKeeper for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/runkeeper.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RunKeeper<\/a> are already on board. As for the Google Fit software development kit, it will be <strong>arriving in the next few weeks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS FROM GOOGLE I\/O:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Android Wear is Google's smartwatch, now available to order\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-io-2014-android-wear-shipping-today\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android Wear is Google&#8217;s smartwatch, now available to order<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Google rethinks Android design\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-i-o-2014-material-design\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google rethinks Android design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The 7 most important announcements from Google I\/O 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/7-most-important-announcements-from-google-io-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 7 most important announcements from Google I\/O 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is combating Apple&#8217;s Healthkit with its own health and fitness tracking platform. Google Fit allows apps and devices to create a fitness profile for users, giving app developers a central hub where they can push their information to. By logging data from all the different sensors included in various fitness trackers and Google&#8217;s own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-io-2014-google-fit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google I\/O 2014: Google Fit, a platform for tracking health and fitness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":68638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-68617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330570,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617\/revisions\/330570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=68617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}