Sports service Google Fit: new features and Material Design

If you lead a healthy lifestyle, you probably are not limited to one type of physical activity. In this case, the service is useful to you Google Fit, which collects information about various sports activities and helping to achieve the goals. Recently the service has been updated and is now even more convenient and useful.

Project google Fit It was launched almost a year ago as a universal tool for collecting a variety of information about the user's physical activity. At the time of launch it was announced to support the project with Nike hand, HTC, LG, Withings, Motorola, Noom, Runtastic, RunKeeper, Polar and, accordingly, produced by these companies and applications gadgets. During the existence of Google Fit joined by other partners, such as Xiaomi with his megapopular fitness bracelet Mi Band.

A few days ago Google Fit site received a significant upgrade for the first year of its existence. There have been many changes, not only in the interface of the service, but also in its functional content. First thing that strikes the eye is that Google Fit trending received clearance in Material Design style unifies its appearance with other Google products. All information is now displayed in the form of cards, there is a floating function button, there are familiar to us sidebar.

In these cards, you can see information about their activities for the current day, as well as summary information for a week or month. It can be presented in graphs that display the number of steps, calories, distance, and training time. Another way of presenting information - calendar, which marked the days of classes and types of physical activity. When you click on one of them there are details of the day spent in training.

In addition to viewing the results and statistics google Fit able to motivate you to new records. To do this, just go to the service settings and set the goal you want to achieve. It can be a daily intake of steps taken, physical activity, distance, calories burned. Together with the client Android appWhich will monitor the achievement of the intended result, this function will help you to be more active and become healthier.

In general, Google Fit service update can not but rejoice. Let's hope that this is only the first step in a series of planned updates that will make the service universal assistant for each athlete.

Do you use Google Fit or prefer any other fitness app?