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Is it possible to develop third party apps using Apple's WatchKit with an API for heart beat/rate data access/raw data access?
Is the WatchKit SDK publicly available for developers now?
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Apple Watch also calculates a daily resting rate and walking average by correlating background heart rate readings with accelerometer data when sufficient background readings are available. So with all your great heart rate data already saved, let's look at how to see it all.
In a nutshell, the Health app gathers information from your iPhone, Apple Watch and third-party apps to quantify data about you and your environment and display it in an easy-to-read, secure and accurate dashboard. HealthKit is the developer framework behind it that allows apps to work with Apple Health and each other.
Does Apple Health have an API? No, Apple Health does not have an API. As no data is stored in the cloud, you need to retrieve it locally from your users' devices. This can be done by implementing Apple HealthKit and all its data retrieval methods into your iOS.
Heart Rate Raw Data information is now available in Watchkit for watchOS 2.0.
WatchOS 2 includes many enhancements to other existing frameworks such as HealthKit, enabling access to the health sensors that access heart rate and health information in real-time.
You could check this information in the following session which is total 30 minutes presentation.If you do not want to watch entire session, then you directly jump to Healthkit API features which is in between 25-28 min:
WatchKit for watchOS 2.0 Session in WWDC 2015
Here is the source code implementation link
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