We recently spoke with Arel English (@arelenglish), CEO and co-founder of Vitogo (@myvitogo), about their integration with the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) and how being a Health Graph partner is benefiting their business. Read on to learn about how Vitogo recreates what a personal trainer does for you using your iOS device and the web. Bill [...]
Fitness games are an important and growing segment of the health and fitness landscape, and we’re very happy to have some several fantastic partners implementing games on top of the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi). Case in point: Nexercise (@nexercise), our featured partner this week. Bill Day: Please tell us about yourself and your company. Benjamin Young: [...]
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Geoff Pitfield (@gpitfield) of Fleetly (@fleetly) about his company and their new Fleetly app release which now includes support for RunKeeper users via Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) integration. Here’s an inside look at how one developer keeps their users happy and healthy with the Health Graph. Bill Day: [...]
We’ve been hard at work adding features users have been requesting to the RunKeeper app! Now available in both iPhone and Android versions: Auto pause – RunKeeper can automatically pause tracking when you stop moving Heart rate zone – RunKeeper can chart information from compatible heart rate monitors; can also provide audio cues to help [...]
This is the fourth and final article in my series on using Google’s App Inventor for Android and eBay web APIs to build Android commerce apps. The first article walked you through how to install App Inventor and start using it to build and share Android apps. It also discussed some of the limitations of [...]
RunKeeper and the Health Graph API "Beers, Brilliance, and Baby Tooth" http://t.co/bZlQHS8P @RunKeeper hackathon recap from @sarahhodges # Another @RunKeeper hackathon write-up http://t.co/sktfk5ew (this one from @terriblelabs) including video of the event http://t.co/YBxAAPUQ # The future of health and fitness http://t.co/7qJt6iT3 and @runkeeper & the @healthgraphapi within it from @thenextweb via @sarahhodges # Health 2.0 [...]
I am a big fan of Hacker News (@hackernewsbot) and Kale Davis' weekly email newsletter curating the best HN content. I'm also pretty big on mobile development and payments, so when I saw an HN item titled "iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer" in a recent newsletter, I of course had [...]
I’ve written some about Square and their mobile card reader before. Click here to read my most recent article on them, part of my alternative payment systems series. The problem is, Square’s dongle has been hacked. And hacking it is pretty embarrassingly simple to do, it seems. The gist is this: Square’s dongle plugs into [...]
I’m currently finishing up a series of articles for the PayPal X Developer Network on building Android apps using Google’s free App Inventor tool. Click here to read the first article (on getting started with App Inventor) and here for the second article (using web APIs). Watch for the rest of the articles in that [...]
