Posted by Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google
Fit
Last year, we teamed up with adidas, Polar, and Withings to invite
developers to create amazing fitness apps that integrated the new Google Fit
platform. The community of Google Fit developers
has flourished since then and to help get them inspired, we even suggested
a few ideas for new, fun, innovative fitness apps. Today, we’re announcing the
twelve grand prize winners, whose apps will be promoted on Google Play.
7MinGym: All
you need is this app, a chair, and a wall to start benefiting from 7 minute workouts at home.
You can play music from your favorite music app and cast your workout to Chromecast or Android
TV.
Aqualert:
This app reminds you to stay hydrated throughout the day and lets you track your water
intake.
Cinch
Weight Loss and Fitness: Cinch helps you with detailed information your steps taken
and calories burned. The app also supports heart-rate tracking with compatible Android Wear
devices.
FitHub:
FitHub lets you track your fitness activity from multiple accounts, including Google Fit, and
multiple wearable devices, including Android Wear. You can also add your friends to compare
your progress!
FitSquad:
FitSquad turns fitness into a competition. Join your friends in a squad to compare progress,
track achievements, and cheer each other on.
Instant -
Quantified Self: Instant is a lifestyle app that helps you track not only your
physical activity but your digital activity too and tells you how much you’re using your phone
and apps.other activity. You can also set usage limits and reminders.
Jump
Rope Wear Counter: This simple app lets you count your jump rope skips with an
Android Wear device.
Move
it!: This app packs one neat feature – it reminds you to get up and move about if
you haven’t been active in the last hour.
Running
Buddies: In this run tracking app, runners can choose to share their runs and stats
with those around them so that they can find other runners similar to themselves to go running
with.
Strength:
Strength is a workout tracking app that also lets you choose from a number of routines, so you
can get to your workout quickly and track it without manual data entry. Schedules and rest
timers come included.
Walkholic:
Walkholic is another way to see your Google Fit walking, cycling, and running data. You can
also turn on notifications if you don’t meet your own preset goals.
We saw a wide range of apps that integrated Google Fit, and both the grand prize
winners and the runner ups will be receiving some great devices from our challenge partners to
help with their ongoing fitness app development: the X_CELL and SPEED_CELL from adidas, a new Android Wear device, a Loop activity
tracker with a H7 heart rate
sensor from Polar, and a Smart Body Analyzer
from Withings.
We’re thrilled these developers chose to integrate the Google Fit platform into their
apps, giving users one place to keep all their fitness activities. With the user’s permission,
any developer can store or read the user’s data from Google Fit and use it to build powerful
and useful fitness experiences. Find out more about integrating
Google Fit into your app.
