Privacy protections for physical activity in Android 10
Since Google Fit was released in 2015 , apps with an abundance of features for health and fitness tracking have integrated with the Google Fit APIs. Over the years, the number of users using Google Fit as a central repository for their fitness and wellness data has grown significantly. With Android 10, we're making further updates to give users even more control over this personal data. One key change concerns how Android apps can monitor a user’s physical activity and retrieve data from Android sensor APIs and the Google Fit platform. In Android 10: Activity recognition permission Android 10 introduces a new runtime permission for activity recognition for apps that make use of the user's step and calorie count or classify the user's physical activity, such as walking, biking, or moving in a vehicle through one of the following APIs: Android Step Counter Activity Recognition API Google Fit Recording API or History API If your app relies only on raw data from other built-...