Chapter 16
A Swift HealthKit iPhone App
HealthKit enables iOS developers to integrate health and fitness devices with their app and integrate the data with Apple’s easy-to-read dashboard. HealthKit enables health and fitness apps on an iOS device to work together and report device data in the Health app dashboard. See Figure 16-1.
Figure 16-1. The Health app’s dashboard
HealthKit is the accompanying developer SDK included in iOS 8 and newer. The SDK enables other applications to access health data with the user’s permission. For example, a blood pressure application could share its information with the user’s doctor.
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