If I can't record squats, then what's the point?
The point is to be one front end to "[a]n open platform that lets users control their fitness data" and "lets developers build smarter apps and manufacturers focus on creating amazing devices." [1]
> You can manually add activities but the only options are: Walking, Running, Biking, Other.
The backend is aware of more activity types [2], so I suspect its either getting the right UX for that is the issue, or that developing the what to do with other activities to make the data meaningful that is holding back putting more into the app UI.
[1] https://developers.google.com/fit/ -- the page that, for me, comes up as the first web (not news) result for a Google search for "Google Fit".
[2] https://developers.google.com/fit/rest/v1/reference/activity...
They don't seem to have mentioned "and lets us sell all the data to the highest bidder"
Does it mean that when Google created Keep, they were looking for a way of making money off our notes and to-do lists?
You should expect that keep data is being tracked the same way gmail and calendar data is. With this your health will also be in the data package.
(1) Part of the infrastructure is tied to Android, so it promotes Android and their many ways of monetizing the Android ecosystem, (2) Its grows the market for cloud services, for which Google is an infrastructure provider.
Both of these are fairly indirect, but that's not uncommon for Google. Google has lots of projects that aren't directly monetized, but support products that are.
If Google would not store emails on their servers, people would leave Gmail and go to a service that does. If Google would store emails, but end-to-end encrypt it, people would leave gmail and put their data to a service with a working spam filter.
Google Now is very popular and a reason why people use Google services.
For Googles revenue it is far more important that people use their services (and therefore watch ads), then it is to create "better ads". I say that because nobody seems to get "smart ads" that are actually interesting to them. Googles gmail ads are little more than "if word is used in conversation, show product related to word".
Except the blog post doesn't allude to anything more than what's already present. I can already input weight and run time and it looks like it tracks heartbeat.
Maybe the phone app has problems loading widgets with the webservice currently being flakey.
If I track a 2 mile 20 minute run with another app, Google Fit (so far) only exposes the data as "Ran 20 minutes" completely eliminating the useful information. And if they have a hidden feature that does track distance as well, why isn't that exposed to me to manually enter?
[1] https://developers.google.com/fit/android/data-types or https://developers.google.com/fit/rest/v1/data-types
There are surprisingly few, if any at all sites/apps fulfilling my very modest basic criteria.
-weight log
-calorie log
-gym and cardio progress log and plan
-not using Liberian units of measurements.
GDoc spreadsheet still seems like the best option.
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Don't they do any market research at all at Google? No one interested in tracking anything will find this useful. Even the people only using a pedometers won't use it. This is a horrible interface getting that one number tracked that they are interested in.
Now I'm upset. So much money to spend and one lackluster product after another.
I would use that but they don't integrate with Witherings scale.
It's hard to think of this as useful with Strava as it's so damn good, but there are many other apps for other activities that are not as nice to use, but users are locked into them as losing all your data means starting with a new app is frustrating.
I do wish I could hide segments though, it's annoying how everyone makes their favorite 0.2 miles their own sprint.
It seems more like a clone of Moves.
They get more accurate data if you aren't allowed to input it.